Re: Question: how to detect if a qdisc is root or not?

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
>>You're right, thats a bug. TC_H_ROOT is the parent ID, which 
>>is stored in sch->parent. IIRC its also passed to the 
>>->init() function.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately it's not passed.  It is passed into the ->change()
> function:
> 
> static int prio_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct rtattr *opt)
> 
> static int prio_change(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 handle, u32 parent, struct
> rtattr **tca, unsigned long *arg)
> 
> I did mess around with sch->parent a bit, with no success (it appears to
> be zero / unitialized).  I'll keep investigating.


Its set after grafting the parent, which is after initialization.
I think what should work is to set it in qdisc_create instead,
sch_api.c around line 490:

+	sch->parent = handle;

        if (handle == TC_H_INGRESS) {
                sch->flags |= TCQ_F_INGRESS;
                sch->stats_lock = &dev->ingress_lock;
...

and remove the initialization in qdisc_graft. That would additionally
have the benefit that ingress qdiscs also have it initialized properly.