commit 5d1180fcacc5ceb7da5494acfe9c5e4ebad4f281
author Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Mon Sep 01 16:07:26 2014 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Tue Sep 02 12:57:04 2014 -0700
tree 53b8ef9d0134ede6109146624ae8e679ebccae83
parent 219c5361e625186c21f3e1bc7bc67cd7dac50ca9

rtnl/do_setlink(): set modified when IFLA_TXQLEN is updated

The only effect of this patch is to print a warning if IFLA_TXQLEN is updated
and a following change fails.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/core/rtnetlink.c

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index f0493e3..5bbaf74 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1611,8 +1611,14 @@
 		modified = 1;
 	}
 
-	if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
-		dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);
+	if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]) {
+		unsigned long value = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);
+
+		if (dev->tx_queue_len ^ value)
+			modified = 1;
+
+		dev->tx_queue_len = value;
+	}
 
 	if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
 		set_operstate(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));