netdev - Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: do not ignore netdev errors when creating tunnel vports

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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	martynas@...ve.works
Cc:	pshelar@...ira.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: do not ignore netdev errors when creating
 tunnel vports

From: Martynas Pumputis <martynas@...ve.works>
Date: Tue,  9 Aug 2016 16:24:50 +0100

> The creation of a tunnel vport (geneve, gre, vxlan) brings up a
> corresponding netdev, a multi-step operation which can fail.
> 
> For example, changing a vxlan vport's netdev state to 'up' binds the
> vport's socket to a UDP port - if the binding fails (e.g. due to the
> port being in use), the error is currently ignored giving the
> appearance that the tunnel vport creation completed successfully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis <martynas@...ve.works>

Applied.