Commit 160ca014 authored Jan 31, 2017 by Theuns Verwoerd Committed by David S. Miller Feb 01, 2017

rtnetlink: Handle IFLA_MASTER parameter when processing rtnl_newlink



Allow a master interface to be specified as one of the parameters when
creating a new interface via rtnl_newlink.  Previously this would
require invoking interface creation, waiting for it to complete, and
then separately binding that new interface to a master.

In particular, this is used when creating a macvlan child interface for
VRRP in a VRF configuration, allowing the interface creator to specify
directly what master interface should be inherited by the child,
without having to deal with asynchronous complications and potential
race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Theuns Verwoerd <theuns.verwoerd@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 04cdf13e

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+6 −1

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -2570,7 +2570,7 @@ replay:
	return -ENODEV;		return -ENODEV;
	}		}

	if (tb[IFLA_MAP] \|\| tb[IFLA_MASTER] \|\| tb[IFLA_PROTINFO])		if (tb[IFLA_MAP] \|\| tb[IFLA_PROTINFO])
	return -EOPNOTSUPP;		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

	if (!ops) {		if (!ops) {
	@@ -2652,6 +2652,11 @@ replay:
	if (err < 0)		if (err < 0)
	goto out_unregister;		goto out_unregister;
	}		}
			if (tb[IFLA_MASTER]) {
			err = do_set_master(dev, nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MASTER]));
			if (err)
			goto out_unregister;
			}
	out:		out:
	if (link_net)		if (link_net)
	put_net(link_net);		put_net(link_net);

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