batman-adv: warn if added interface is part of a bridge
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index d3e0e32..68b667c 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@
if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&hard_iface->refcount))
goto out;
+ /* hard-interface is part of a bridge */
+ if (hard_iface->net_dev->priv_flags & IFF_BRIDGE_PORT)
+ pr_err("You are about to enable batman-adv on '%s' which "
+ "already is part of a bridge. Unless you know exactly "
+ "what you are doing this is probably wrong and won't "
+ "work the way you think it would.\n",
+ hard_iface->net_dev->name);
+
soft_iface = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, iface_name);
if (!soft_iface) {