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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvlan.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 7e24b50..b5241fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -461,12 +461,13 @@ static int macvlan_newlink(struct net_device *dev,
if (lowerdev == NULL)
return -ENODEV;
- /* Don't allow macvlans on top of other macvlans - its not really
- * wrong, but lockdep can't handle it and its not useful for anything
- * you couldn't do directly on top of the real device.
+ /* When creating macvlans on top of other macvlans - use
+ * the real device as the lowerdev.
*/
- if (lowerdev->rtnl_link_ops == dev->rtnl_link_ops)
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (lowerdev->rtnl_link_ops == dev->rtnl_link_ops) {
+ struct macvlan_dev *lowervlan = netdev_priv(lowerdev);
+ lowerdev = lowervlan->lowerdev;
+ }
if (!tb[IFLA_MTU])
dev->mtu = lowerdev->mtu;
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