bridge: prevent bridging wrong device

The bridge code assumes ethernet addressing, so be more strict in
the what is allowed. This showed up when GRE had a bug and was not
using correct address format.

Add some more comments for increased clarity.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger 2009-11-05 20:46:52 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 22402529df
commit 1056bd5167

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@ -377,12 +377,16 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
struct net_bridge_port *p;
int err = 0;
if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK || dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER)
/* Don't allow bridging non-ethernet like devices */
if ((dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) ||
dev->type != ARPHRD_ETHER || dev->addr_len != ETH_ALEN)
return -EINVAL;
/* No bridging of bridges */
if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_start_xmit == br_dev_xmit)
return -ELOOP;
/* Device is already being bridged */
if (dev->br_port != NULL)
return -EBUSY;