Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/core: ensure features get disabled on new lower devs

[David Miller]

From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 2015 23:09:32 -0500

> With moving netdev_sync_lower_features() after the .ndo_set_features
> calls, I neglected to verify that devices added *after* a flag had been
> disabled on an upper device were properly added with that flag disabled as
> well. This currently happens, because we exit __netdev_update_features()
> when we see dev->features == features for the upper dev. We can retain the
> optimization of leaving without calling .ndo_set_features with a bit of
> tweaking and a goto here.
> 
> Fixes: fd867d51f889 ("net/core: generic support for disabling netdev features down stack")
 ...
> Reported-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Based on suggestions from Alex, and with not changing err to ret, this
> patch actually becomes quite minimal and doesn't ugly up the code much.

Applied, thanks.
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