From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Bernat Subject: [PATCH] veth: delay peer link configuration after interfaces are tied Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 12:12:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1464603132-24665-1-git-send-email-vincent@bernat.im> References: <574C0697.6060506@6wind.com> Cc: Vincent Bernat To: "David S. Miller" , Vijay Pandurangan , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Received: from bart.luffy.cx ([78.47.78.131]:38520 "EHLO bart.luffy.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751658AbcE3KMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 06:12:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <574C0697.6060506@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: When the peer link is created, its "iflink" information is not advertised through netlink. If a user is maintaining a cache from all updates, it will miss this information: 2: veth0@NONE: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ae:0e:08:af:fb:a0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: veth1@veth0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether 3a:31:f1:36:2e:e5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff To avoid this situation, the peer link is only configured after both interfaces are tied together: 3: veth0@veth1: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ee:0d:80:46:36:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: veth1@veth0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ba:25:bc:7a:0d:c8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat --- drivers/net/veth.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c index f37a6e61d4ad..9726c4dbf659 100644 --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -432,10 +432,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, netif_carrier_off(peer); - err = rtnl_configure_link(peer, ifmp); - if (err < 0) - goto err_configure_peer; - /* * register dev last * @@ -466,6 +462,10 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, priv = netdev_priv(peer); rcu_assign_pointer(priv->peer, dev); + + err = rtnl_configure_link(peer, ifmp); + if (err < 0) + goto err_configure_peer; return 0; err_register_dev: -- 2.8.1