Re: Move interface across network namespaces

[Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@gmail.com>]

>> Well, this regression was introduced by commit a2835763e130c343ac,
>> which was merged into v2.6.34. Reverting parts of this commit makes
>> the problem go away but breaks the support of "specifying device flags
>> during device creation". I don't know the best way to fix this... any
>> ideas?
>
> Everything going through dev_change_net_namespace already needs to be
> in the initialized state.  So it looks like we just need to do:
>
> Does the patch below work for you?
>
> Eric
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 17d67b5..bfbde69 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -6108,6 +6108,8 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
>        call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
>        call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev);
>
> +       rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U);
> +
>        /*
>         *      Flush the unicast and multicast chains
>         */
>

 This works pretty fine. Thanks! :)

-- 
Renato Westphal