netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns

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Message-ID: <87ob2b4voz.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:01:48 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns

Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>>
>> This also breaks propogation of state changes from lower device
>> to upper device. Things like carrier and up/down.
>>
>
> macvlan_device_event() handles this pretty well by using a pointer to
> net_device.
> I don't see it is a problem from the code.

A quick grep shows two uses of iflink in net/core/link_watch.c that are
likely broken by your proposed change.

Eric

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