linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: return the newly created link in response to newlink

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Message-ID: <20140130142740.GC2185@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:27:40 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: return the newly created link in response to
 newlink

On 01/30/14 at 02:05pm, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Userspace needs to reliably know the ifindex of the netdevs it creates,
> as we cannot rely on the ifname staying unchanged.
> 
> Earlier, a simlpe NLMSG_ERROR would be returned, but this returns the
> corresponding RTM_NEWLINK on success instead.

This breaks existing Netlink applications in user space. User space
apps are not prepared to receive both a RTM_NEWLINK reply _and_
the ACK unless they have set NLM_F_ECHO in the original request.

You can already reliably retrieve the ifindex by listening to
RTNLGRP_LINK messages and be notified about the link created
including all follow-up renames.

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