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authorJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>2011-02-13 10:15:37 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-13 16:58:39 -0800
commitfbaec0ea54f7d9131891ff98744e82c073ce03b1 (patch)
treed0622d38a51b7e4a1e853338e7cbd954d3977cf2
parentf45437efff460aa033978180da88229c5fc68455 (diff)
rtnetlink: implement setting of master device
This patch allows userspace to enslave/release slave devices via netlink interface using IFLA_MASTER. This introduces generic way to add/remove underling devices. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h12
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c43
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 5a42b100376..d08ef653857 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -783,6 +783,14 @@ struct netdev_tc_txq {
* Set hardware filter for RFS. rxq_index is the target queue index;
* flow_id is a flow ID to be passed to rps_may_expire_flow() later.
* Return the filter ID on success, or a negative error code.
+ *
+ * Slave management functions (for bridge, bonding, etc). User should
+ * call netdev_set_master() to set dev->master properly.
+ * int (*ndo_add_slave)(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *slave_dev);
+ * Called to make another netdev an underling.
+ *
+ * int (*ndo_del_slave)(struct net_device *dev, struct net_device *slave_dev);
+ * Called to release previously enslaved netdev.
*/
#define HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS
struct net_device_ops {
@@ -862,6 +870,10 @@ struct net_device_ops {
u16 rxq_index,
u32 flow_id);
#endif
+ int (*ndo_add_slave)(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct net_device *slave_dev);
+ int (*ndo_del_slave)(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct net_device *slave_dev);
};
/*
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index da0fe457c85..49f7ea5b4c7 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1036,6 +1036,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
[IFLA_MAP] = { .len = sizeof(struct rtnl_link_ifmap) },
[IFLA_MTU] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_LINK] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [IFLA_MASTER] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_TXQLEN] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_WEIGHT] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_OPERSTATE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
@@ -1178,6 +1179,41 @@ static int do_setvfinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *attr)
return err;
}
+static int do_set_master(struct net_device *dev, int ifindex)
+{
+ struct net_device *master_dev;
+ const struct net_device_ops *ops;
+ int err;
+
+ if (dev->master) {
+ if (dev->master->ifindex == ifindex)
+ return 0;
+ ops = dev->master->netdev_ops;
+ if (ops->ndo_del_slave) {
+ err = ops->ndo_del_slave(dev->master, dev);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ } else {
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (ifindex) {
+ master_dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(dev), ifindex);
+ if (!master_dev)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ ops = master_dev->netdev_ops;
+ if (ops->ndo_add_slave) {
+ err = ops->ndo_add_slave(master_dev, dev);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ } else {
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
struct nlattr **tb, char *ifname, int modified)
{
@@ -1301,6 +1337,13 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
goto errout;
}
+ if (tb[IFLA_MASTER]) {
+ err = do_set_master(dev, nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MASTER]));
+ if (err)
+ goto errout;
+ modified = 1;
+ }
+
if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);