From 4a8bb7e27fbb68da888b55f26defd2855225b2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:44:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bonding: Don't allow mode change via sysfs with slaves present MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When changing mode via bonding's sysfs, the slaves are not initialized correctly. Forbid to change modes with slaves present to ensure that every slave is initialized correctly via bond_enslave(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek Acked-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c index 5a20804..4ef7e2f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c @@ -319,6 +319,13 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_mode(struct device *d, goto out; } + if (bond->slave_cnt > 0) { + pr_err("unable to update mode of %s because it has slaves.\n", + bond->dev->name); + ret = -EPERM; + goto out; + } + new_value = bond_parse_parm(buf, bond_mode_tbl); if (new_value < 0) { pr_err("%s: Ignoring invalid mode value %.*s.\n", -- 2.7.4