From a52ad514fdf3b8a57ca4322c92d2d8d5c6182485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarod Wilson Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:04:34 -0400 Subject: net: deprecate eth_change_mtu, remove usage With centralized MTU checking, there's nothing productive done by eth_change_mtu that isn't already done in dev_set_mtu, so mark it as deprecated and remove all usage of it in the kernel. All callers have been audited for calls to alloc_etherdev* or ether_setup directly, which means they all have a valid dev->min_mtu and dev->max_mtu. Now eth_change_mtu prints out a netdev_warn about being deprecated, for the benefit of out-of-tree drivers that might be utilizing it. Of note, dvb_net.c actually had dev->mtu = 4096, while using eth_change_mtu, meaning that if you ever tried changing it's mtu, you couldn't set it above 1500 anymore. It's now getting dev->max_mtu also set to 4096 to remedy that. v2: fix up lantiq_etop, missed breakage due to drive not compiling on x86 CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ethernet/eth.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ethernet') diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index 66dff5e3d772..f983c102ebe3 100644 --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c @@ -322,8 +322,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(eth_mac_addr); */ int eth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) { - if (new_mtu < 68 || new_mtu > ETH_DATA_LEN) - return -EINVAL; + netdev_warn(dev, "%s is deprecated\n", __func__); dev->mtu = new_mtu; return 0; } @@ -357,6 +356,8 @@ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev) dev->type = ARPHRD_ETHER; dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN; dev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN; + dev->min_mtu = ETH_MIN_MTU; + dev->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN; dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN; dev->tx_queue_len = 1000; /* Ethernet wants good queues */ dev->flags = IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b