[PATCH net-next 0/4] vxlan: fix default fdb entry user-space notify ordering/race

[Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>]

From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>

Problem:
In vxlan_newlink, a default fdb entry is added before register_netdev.
The default fdb creation function notifies user-space of the
fdb entry on the vxlan device which user-space does not know about yet.
(RTM_NEWNEIGH goes before RTM_NEWLINK for the same ifindex).

This series fixes the user-space netlink notification ordering issue
with the following changes:
- decouple fdb notify from fdb create.
- Move fdb notify after register_netdev.
- modify rtnl_configure_link to allow configuring a link early.
- Call rtnl_configure_link in vxlan newlink handler to notify
userspace about the newlink before fdb notify and
hence avoiding the user-space race.

Fixes: afbd8bae9c79 ("vxlan: add implicit fdb entry for default destination")
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>

Roopa Prabhu (4):
  vxlan: add new fdb alloc and create helpers
  vxlan: make netlink notify in vxlan_fdb_destroy optional
  rtnetlink: add rtnl_link_state check in rtnl_configure_link
  vxlan: fix default fdb netlink notify ordering during netdev create

 drivers/net/vxlan.c  | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |   9 ++--
 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

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