netdev - Re: [PATCH] veth: replace iflink by a dedicated symlink in sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:00:13 +0200
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
To:	Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.im>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: replace iflink by a dedicated symlink in sysfs

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:44:08 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> While the documentation doesn't say exactly what kind of relationship
> iflink should represent, until a45253, only lower devices were
> advertised this way. While veth cannot have a lower device, using iflink
> to advertise the peer may create infinite loops in programs using iflink
> to discover device topology.
> 
> Instead of advertising the peer link with iflink, a symbolic link "peer"
> is added to each peer.

By removing veth_get_iflink, you're also stopping IFLA_LINK being
advertised in netlink messages, which consequently makes impossible to
reliably match veth peers across name spaces again. This would be a
huge step backwards.

 Jiri

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