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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ipip.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 |
5 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index d971346b0340..71caf7a5e6c6 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2392,6 +2392,9 @@ extern int netdev_notice(const struct net_device *dev, const char *format, ...) extern int netdev_info(const struct net_device *dev, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))); +#define MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV(device) \ + MODULE_ALIAS("netdev-" device) + #if defined(DEBUG) #define netdev_dbg(__dev, format, args...) \ netdev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, __dev, format, ##args) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 8ae6631abcc2..6561021d22d1 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1114,13 +1114,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change); void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name) { struct net_device *dev; + int no_module; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, name); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!dev && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - request_module("%s", name); + no_module = !dev; + if (no_module && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name); + if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) { + if (!request_module("%s", name)) + pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device " +"with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s " +"instead\n", name); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load); diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 6613edfac28c..d1d0e2c256fc 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -1765,4 +1765,4 @@ module_exit(ipgre_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gre"); MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gretap"); -MODULE_ALIAS("gre0"); +MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("gre0"); diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipip.c b/net/ipv4/ipip.c index 988f52fba54a..a5f58e7cbb26 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipip.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipip.c @@ -913,4 +913,4 @@ static void __exit ipip_fini(void) module_init(ipip_init); module_exit(ipip_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_ALIAS("tunl0"); +MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("tunl0"); diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c index 8ce38f10a547..d2c16e10f650 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -1290,4 +1290,4 @@ static int __init sit_init(void) module_init(sit_init); module_exit(sit_cleanup); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_ALIAS("sit0"); +MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("sit0"); |