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authorJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>2013-10-21 14:28:02 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-22 19:22:09 -0400
commit47d4ab91e4472723f181075c81627374ca86816c (patch)
treeb8f3811fd8c623012acecf0feee68290b05ea1a0 /drivers/net/macvlan.c
parent5378c2e6ea236de847a39bdb6f3aa83137120d26 (diff)
macvlan: resolve ENOENT errors on creation
After the commit below attempting to create macvlan devices was resulting in ENOENT errors, # ip link add link p3p2 type macvlan RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument This happens because netdev_upper_dev_link() is called before register_netdevice() in the macvlan code. Through a call chain this results in a call to __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert() and finally a sysfs_create_link(). This requires the kobject of the macvlan to be registered which is done in register_netdevice(). If there is no kobject which is the case here the ENOENT error is seen on the command line. To resolve this move the netdev_upper_dev_link() call below the register_netdevice() call. This aligns with vlan driver flow. Regression introduced here, commit 5831d66e8097aedfa3bc35941cf265ada2352317 Author: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Date: Wed Sep 25 09:20:32 2013 +0200 net: create sysfs symlinks for neighbour devices CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/macvlan.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvlan.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 9bf46bd19b8..cc9845ec91c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -828,22 +828,21 @@ int macvlan_common_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
eth_hw_addr_inherit(dev, lowerdev);
}
+ port->count += 1;
+ err = register_netdevice(dev);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto destroy_port;
+
err = netdev_upper_dev_link(lowerdev, dev);
if (err)
goto destroy_port;
- port->count += 1;
- err = register_netdevice(dev);
- if (err < 0)
- goto upper_dev_unlink;
list_add_tail_rcu(&vlan->list, &port->vlans);
netif_stacked_transfer_operstate(lowerdev, dev);
return 0;
-upper_dev_unlink:
- netdev_upper_dev_unlink(lowerdev, dev);
destroy_port:
port->count -= 1;
if (!port->count)