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-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 5bbaf74..2bd9fb1 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1624,8 +1624,12 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
if (tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]) {
+ unsigned char value = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);
+
write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
- dev->link_mode = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]);
+ if (dev->link_mode ^ value)
+ modified = 1;
+ dev->link_mode = value;
write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
}
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