vlan: allow to change type when no vlan device is hooked on netdev

vlan_info might be present but still no vlan devices might be there.
That is in case of vlan0 automatically added.

So in that case, allow to change netdev type.

Reported-by: Jon Stanley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
index 9096bcb081326c92bb64b6dedb11033073998ca5..ee070722a3a36f1916b385e8872ea505105d06bb 100644 (file)
--- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
@@ -463,7 +463,9 @@ static int vlan_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event,
 
        case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
                /* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
-               return NOTIFY_BAD;
+               if (vlan_uses_dev(dev))
+                       return NOTIFY_BAD;
+               break;
 
        case NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS:
        case NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER: