net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling
authorJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:58:22 +0000 (02:58 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:27:52 +0000 (08:27 -0700)
commitc94eb3f964dd7c08486d7c1227c7b5b69d09aabe
tree86d8f9f210d1b1b05df44bc7cd7394ccb8dd8b96
parent242e0e14c3995231230b2836bcd1f5dc6c08ff90
net: fix rtnetlink IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI handling

[ Upstream commit b1beb681cba5358f62e6187340660ade226a5fcc ]

When device flags are set using rtnetlink, IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI
flags are handled specially. Function dev_change_flags sets IFF_PROMISC and
IFF_ALLMULTI bits in dev->gflags according to the passed value but
do_setlink passes a result of rtnl_dev_combine_flags which takes those bits
from dev->flags.

This can be easily trigerred by doing:

tcpdump -i eth0 &
ip l s up eth0

ip sets IFF_UP flag in ifi_flags and ifi_change, which is combined with
IFF_PROMISC by rtnl_dev_combine_flags, causing __dev_change_flags to set
IFF_PROMISC in gflags.

Reported-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/rtnetlink.c