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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 9f66de9c0572..0d39032e9621 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1115,13 +1115,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change); void dev_load(struct net *net, const char *name) { struct net_device *dev; + int no_module; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, name); rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!dev && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - request_module("%s", name); + no_module = !dev; + if (no_module && capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + no_module = request_module("netdev-%s", name); + if (no_module && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) { + if (!request_module("%s", name)) + pr_err("Loading kernel module for a network device " +"with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-%s " +"instead\n", name); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_load); |