[34-longterm 192/196] rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net_namespaces

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 20:27:56 EST


From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit d2237d35748e7f448a9c2d9dc6a85ef637466e24 upstream.

Renato Westphal noticed that since commit a2835763e130c343ace5320c20d33c281e7097b7
"rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually" was merged
we no longer send a netlink message when a networking device is moved
from one network namespace to another.

Fix this by adding the missing manual notification in dev_change_net_namespaces.

Since all network devices that are processed by dev_change_net_namspaces are
in the initialized state the complicated tests that guard the manual
rtmsg_ifinfo calls in rollback_registered and register_netdevice are
unnecessary and we can just perform a plain notification.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Tested-by: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 1bde8b7..bcd5f6e 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5693,6 +5693,7 @@ 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
--
1.7.9.3

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