[PATCH v2 net-next 3/7] veth: Set VETH_INFO_PEER to veth_link_ops.peer_type.

[Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>]

For per-netns RTNL, we need to prefetch the peer device's netns.

Let's set rtnl_link_ops.peer_type and accordingly remove duplicated
validation in ->newlink().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/veth.c | 18 ++++--------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 18148e068aa0..0d6d0d749d44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -1781,19 +1781,11 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 	/*
 	 * create and register peer first
 	 */
-	if (data != NULL && data[VETH_INFO_PEER] != NULL) {
-		struct nlattr *nla_peer;
+	if (data && data[VETH_INFO_PEER]) {
+		struct nlattr *nla_peer = data[VETH_INFO_PEER];
 
-		nla_peer = data[VETH_INFO_PEER];
 		ifmp = nla_data(nla_peer);
-		err = rtnl_nla_parse_ifinfomsg(peer_tb, nla_peer, extack);
-		if (err < 0)
-			return err;
-
-		err = veth_validate(peer_tb, NULL, extack);
-		if (err < 0)
-			return err;
-
+		rtnl_nla_parse_ifinfomsg(peer_tb, nla_peer, extack);
 		tbp = peer_tb;
 	} else {
 		ifmp = NULL;
@@ -1809,9 +1801,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
 	}
 
 	net = rtnl_link_get_net(src_net, tbp);
-	if (IS_ERR(net))
-		return PTR_ERR(net);
-
 	peer = rtnl_create_link(net, ifname, name_assign_type,
 				&veth_link_ops, tbp, extack);
 	if (IS_ERR(peer)) {
@@ -1952,6 +1941,7 @@ static struct rtnl_link_ops veth_link_ops = {
 	.newlink	= veth_newlink,
 	.dellink	= veth_dellink,
 	.policy		= veth_policy,
+	.peer_type	= VETH_INFO_PEER,
 	.maxtype	= VETH_INFO_MAX,
 	.get_link_net	= veth_get_link_net,
 	.get_num_tx_queues	= veth_get_num_queues,
-- 
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)