veth: set iflink to the peer veth
authorNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:07:11 +0000 (17:07 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:05:01 +0000 (14:05 -0400)
Now that the peer netns is advertised in rtnl messages, we can set this property
so that IFLA_LINK will advertise the peer ifindex. It allows the userland to get
the full veth configuration.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/veth.c

index 4cca36ebc4fb194a22af440f11047ecc0ce7fd1e..c8186ffda1a314f08cb71b6688c5b120e57c1717 100644 (file)
@@ -263,6 +263,20 @@ static void veth_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER */
 
+static int veth_get_iflink(const struct net_device *dev)
+{
+       struct veth_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
+       struct net_device *peer;
+       int iflink;
+
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       peer = rcu_dereference(priv->peer);
+       iflink = peer ? peer->ifindex : 0;
+       rcu_read_unlock();
+
+       return iflink;
+}
+
 static const struct net_device_ops veth_netdev_ops = {
        .ndo_init            = veth_dev_init,
        .ndo_open            = veth_open,
@@ -275,6 +289,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops veth_netdev_ops = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
        .ndo_poll_controller    = veth_poll_controller,
 #endif
+       .ndo_get_iflink         = veth_get_iflink,
 };
 
 #define VETH_FEATURES (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_ALL_TSO |    \
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