netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] Ipvlan should return an error when an address is already in use.

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Date:   Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:26:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kjlx@...pleofstupid.com
Cc:     maheshb@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] Ipvlan should return an error when an
 address is already in use.

From: Krister Johansen <kjlx@...pleofstupid.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:12:14 -0700

> The ipvlan code already knows how to detect when a duplicate address is
> about to be assigned to an ipvlan device.  However, that failure is not
> propogated outward and leads to a silent failure.
> 
> Introduce a validation step at ip address creation time and allow device
> drivers to register to validate the incoming ip addresses.  The ipvlan
> code is the first consumer.  If it detects an address in use, we can
> return an error to the user before beginning to commit the new ifa in
> the networking code.
> 
> This can be especially useful if it is necessary to provision many
> ipvlans in containers.  The provisioning software (or operator) can use
> this to detect situations where an ip address is unexpectedly in use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@...pleofstupid.com>

Ok, applied, thank you.