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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:58:22 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, pshelar@...ira.com, cwang@...pensource.com,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	david@...son.dropbear.id.au, sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com,
	sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: [patch net-next v2 1/2] rtnetlink: allow to register ops without ops->setup set

So far, it is assumed that ops->setup is filled up. But there might be
case that ops might make sense even without ->setup. In that case,
forbid to newlink and dellink.

This allows to register simple rtnl link ops containing only ->kind.
That allows consistent way of passing device kind (either device-kind or
slave-kind) to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
---

v1->v2: included comments from Eric fixing default_device_exit_batch,
	not checking setup in dellink and added hopefully clearer description
	and comment.

 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 1063996..27acaf7 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -299,7 +299,12 @@ int __rtnl_link_register(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
 	if (rtnl_link_ops_get(ops->kind))
 		return -EEXIST;
 
-	if (!ops->dellink)
+	/* The check for setup is here because if ops
+	 * does not have that filled up, it is not possible
+	 * to use the ops for creating device. So do not
+	 * fill up dellink as well. That disables rtnl_dellink.
+	 */
+	if (ops->setup && !ops->dellink)
 		ops->dellink = unregister_netdevice_queue;
 
 	list_add_tail(&ops->list, &link_ops);
@@ -1777,7 +1782,7 @@ static int rtnl_dellink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	ops = dev->rtnl_link_ops;
-	if (!ops)
+	if (!ops || !ops->dellink)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	ops->dellink(dev, &list_kill);
@@ -2038,6 +2043,9 @@ replay:
 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		}
 
+		if (!ops->setup)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 		if (!ifname[0])
 			snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, "%s%%d", ops->kind);
 
-- 
1.9.0

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