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authorSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>2012-12-03 16:17:12 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-12-04 13:25:57 -0500
commit4e66ae2ea371cf431283e2cb95480eb860432856 (patch)
tree4d4c2312e3df21fe515fdde5c77440b34b75be67 /net/core
parent008d845cf65c3153bbcfa2f1cb3369a99e12de02 (diff)
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net: dev_change_net_namespace: send a KOBJ_REMOVED/KOBJ_ADD
When a new nic is created in namespace ns1, the kernel sends a KOBJ_ADD uevent to ns1. When the nic is moved to ns2, we only send a KOBJ_MOVE to ns2, and nothing to ns1. This patch changes that behavior so that when moving a nic from ns1 to ns2, we send a KOBJ_REMOVED to ns1 and KOBJ_ADD to ns2. (The KOBJ_MOVE is still sent to ns2). The effects of this can be seen when starting and stopping containers in an upstart based host. Lxc will create a pair of veth nics, the kernel sends KOBJ_ADD, and upstart starts network-instance jobs for each. When one nic is moved to the container, because no KOBJ_REMOVED event is received, the network-instance job for that veth never goes away. This was reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1065589 With this patch the networ-instance jobs properly go away. The other oddness solved here is that if a nic is passed into a running upstart-based container, without this patch no network-instance job is started in the container. But when the container creates a new nic itself (ip link add new type veth) then network-interface jobs are created. With this patch, behavior comes in line with a regular host. v2: also send KOBJ_ADD to new netns. There will then be a _MOVE event from the device_rename() call, but that should be innocuous. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 2f94df2..0aea3fe 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6418,6 +6418,9 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
dev_uc_flush(dev);
dev_mc_flush(dev);
+ /* Send a netdev-removed uevent to the old namespace */
+ kobject_uevent(&dev->dev.kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
+
/* Actually switch the network namespace */
dev_net_set(dev, net);
@@ -6429,6 +6432,9 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
dev->iflink = dev->ifindex;
}
+ /* Send a netdev-add uevent to the new namespace */
+ kobject_uevent(&dev->dev.kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+
/* Fixup kobjects */
err = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
WARN_ON(err);
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