[PATCH] Don't oops on MTU change.

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 06:47:27 EST


[VIA_VELOCITY]: Don't oops on MTU change.

MAINLINE: bd7b3f34198071d8bec05180530c362f1800ba46

Simple mtu change when device is down.
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9382.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
index b670b97..63a2f81 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
@@ -1798,6 +1798,11 @@ static int velocity_change_mtu(struct
net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (!netif_running(dev)) {
+ dev->mtu = new_mtu;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (new_mtu != oldmtu) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags);