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net: Allow to create links with given ifindex

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Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
(i.e. -- a container).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Pavel Emelyanov 2012-08-08 21:52:46 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent b14f243a42
commit 9c7dafbfab
2 changed files with 13 additions and 6 deletions
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net/core/dev.c
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@ -5579,7 +5579,12 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
}
}
dev->ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
ret = -EBUSY;
if (!dev->ifindex)
dev->ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
else if (__dev_get_by_index(net, dev->ifindex))
goto err_uninit;
if (dev->iflink == -1)
dev->iflink = dev->ifindex;

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net/core/rtnetlink.c
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@ -1812,8 +1812,6 @@ replay:
return -ENODEV;
}
if (ifm->ifi_index)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (tb[IFLA_MAP] || tb[IFLA_MASTER] || tb[IFLA_PROTINFO])
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
@ -1839,10 +1837,14 @@ replay:
return PTR_ERR(dest_net);
dev = rtnl_create_link(net, dest_net, ifname, ops, tb);
if (IS_ERR(dev))
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dev);
else if (ops->newlink)
goto out;
}
dev->ifindex = ifm->ifi_index;
if (ops->newlink)
err = ops->newlink(net, dev, tb, data);
else
err = register_netdevice(dev);