[ 040/187] bridge: Assign rtnl_link_ops to bridge devices created via ioctl (v2)

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-12T22:37:58Z

From: stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

[ Upstream commit 149ddd83a92b02c658d6c61f3276eb6500d585e8 ]

This ensures that bridges created with brctl(8) or ioctl(2) directly
also carry IFLA_LINKINFO when dumped over netlink. This also allows
to create a bridge with ioctl(2) and delete it with RTM_DELLINK.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/bridge/br_if.c | 1 +
net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 2 +-
net/bridge/br_private.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ int br_add_bridge(struct net *net, const
return -ENOMEM;

dev_net_set(dev, net);
+ dev->rtnl_link_ops = &br_link_ops;

res = register_netdev(dev);
if (res)
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int br_validate(struct nlattr *tb
return 0;
}

-static struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = {
+struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = {
.kind = "bridge",
.priv_size = sizeof(struct net_bridge),
.setup = br_dev_setup,
--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ extern int (*br_fdb_test_addr_hook)(stru
#endif

/* br_netlink.c */
+extern struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops;
extern int br_netlink_init(void);
extern void br_netlink_fini(void);
extern void br_ifinfo_notify(int event, struct net_bridge_port *port);