The sanity checks on the control modes will reject any request related to an unsupported features, even turning it off. Example on an interface which does not support CAN-FD: $ ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000 fd off RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported This patch lets such command go through (but requests to turn on an unsupported feature are, of course, still denied). Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c b/drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c index 147c23d7dab7..80425636049d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static int can_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[], maskedflags = cm->flags & cm->mask; /* check whether provided bits are allowed to be passed */ - if (cm->mask & ~(priv->ctrlmode_supported | ctrlstatic)) + if (maskedflags & ~(priv->ctrlmode_supported | ctrlstatic)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; /* do not check for static fd-non-iso if 'fd' is disabled */ -- 2.31.1
