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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:41:46 +0100
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] veth: set iflink to the peer veth
Now that the peer netns is advertised in rtnl messages, we can set this property
so that IFLA_LINK will advertise the peer ifindex. It allows the userland to get
the full veth configuration.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
---
drivers/net/veth.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 4cca36ebc4fb..02d1f798a371 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -427,9 +427,11 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
priv = netdev_priv(dev);
rcu_assign_pointer(priv->peer, peer);
+ dev->iflink = peer->ifindex;
priv = netdev_priv(peer);
rcu_assign_pointer(priv->peer, dev);
+ peer->iflink = dev->ifindex;
return 0;
err_register_dev:
--
2.2.2
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