linux-kernel - [099/264] rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net

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Date:	Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:32:26 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [099/264] rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net_namespaces

3.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

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.

Tested-by: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6115,6 +6115,7 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
 	*/
 	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

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