bridge: notify applications if address of bridge device changes

The mac address of the bridge device may be changed when a new interface
is added to the bridge. If this happens, then the bridge needs to call
the network notifiers to tickle any other systems that care. Since bridge
can be a module, this also means exporting the notifier function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index dce8f0009a12..718b60366dfe 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
 {
         struct net_bridge_port *p;
         int err = 0;
+        bool changed_addr;
 
         /* Don't allow bridging non-ethernet like devices */
         if ((dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) ||
@@ -446,7 +447,7 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
         list_add_rcu(&p->list, &br->port_list);
 
         spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
-        br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(br);
+        changed_addr = br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(br);
         br_features_recompute(br);
 
         if ((dev->flags & IFF_UP) && netif_carrier_ok(dev) &&
@@ -456,6 +457,9 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
 
         br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);
 
+        if (changed_addr)
+                call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);
+
         dev_set_mtu(br->dev, br_min_mtu(br));
 
         kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);