From: Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net
[ Upstream commit 07bddef9839378bd6f95b393cf24c420529b4ef1 ]
Currently, the kernel doesn't let the administrator set a macsec device up unless its lower device is currently up. This is inconsistent, as a macsec device that is up won't automatically go down when its lower device goes down.
Now that linkstate propagation works, there's really no reason for this limitation, so let's remove it.
Fixes: c09440f7dcb3 ("macsec: introduce IEEE 802.1AE driver") Reported-by: Radu Rendec radu.rendec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c index 40e8f11f20cbf..9bb65e0af7dd7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -2798,9 +2798,6 @@ static int macsec_dev_open(struct net_device *dev) struct net_device *real_dev = macsec->real_dev; int err;
- if (!(real_dev->flags & IFF_UP)) - return -ENETDOWN; - err = dev_uc_add(real_dev, dev->dev_addr); if (err < 0) return err;