netdev - Re: Problem with iflink in netns

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 11:20:58 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with iflink in netns

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> There have been a couple of bugzilla reports already about cases where a macvlan
> or vlan is moved into another namespace. In these cases the parent device ifindex (iflink)
> is no longer valid.
>
>
> Normally it is not a big issue, until another device is created using the ifindex
> of the parent
>
> Does anyone have a suggested fix? Marking iflink as 0 won't work then the devices no
> longer appear as slaves. Another possibility would be to make block creation of device
> where ifindex matches existing iflink of other devices; but this would slow down device
> creation.
>

I have a pending fix which converts ->iflink to a pointer to struct net_device,
this is a suggested fix from Ben. And so, when the lower device is not
in the same
namespace with the upper device, we should not display the iflink information.

I will send it soon.
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