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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>2015-10-16 14:01:22 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-16 16:15:05 +0200
commit573c7ba006edbecff0714db651dd3602b9d0a6a0 (patch)
tree95f4e65ae8d2940047c1211fca064bccd41b25eb /net/core
parentMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsh... (diff)
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net: introduce pre-change upper device notifier
This newly introduced netdevice notifier is called before actual change upper happens. That provides a possibility for notifier handlers to know upper change will happen and react to it, including possibility to forbid the change. That is valuable for drivers which can check if the upper device linkage is supported and forbid that in case it is not. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a229bf0d649d..1225b4be8ed6 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5346,6 +5346,12 @@ static int __netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev,
changeupper_info.master = master;
changeupper_info.linking = true;
+ ret = call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER, dev,
+ &changeupper_info.info);
+ ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
ret = __netdev_adjacent_dev_link_neighbour(dev, upper_dev, private,
master);
if (ret)
@@ -5488,6 +5494,9 @@ void netdev_upper_dev_unlink(struct net_device *dev,
changeupper_info.master = netdev_master_upper_dev_get(dev) == upper_dev;
changeupper_info.linking = false;
+ call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER, dev,
+ &changeupper_info.info);
+
__netdev_adjacent_dev_unlink_neighbour(dev, upper_dev);
/* Here is the tricky part. We must remove all dev's lower