kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v5.1.10

failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces

2019-04-11T05:12:26+00:00

When a netdev appears through hot plug then gets enslaved by a failover master that is already up and running, the slave will be opened right away after getting enslaved. Today there's a race that userspace (udev) may fail to rename the slave if the kernel (net_failover) opens the slave earlier than when the userspace rename happens. Unlike bond or team, the primary slave of failover can't be renamed by userspace ahead of time, since the kernel initiated auto-enslavement is unable to, or rather, is never meant to be synchronized with the rename request from userspace. As the failover slave interfaces are not designed to be operated directly by userspace apps: IP configuration, filter rules with regard to network traffic passing and etc., should all be done on master interface. In general, userspace apps only care about the name of master interface, while slave names are less important as long as admin users can see reliable names that may carry other information describing the netdev. For e.g., they can infer that "ens3nsby" is a standby slave of "ens3", while for a name like "eth0" they can't tell which master it belongs to. Historically the name of IFF_UP interface can't be changed because there might be admin script or management software that is already relying on such behavior and assumes that the slave name can't be changed once UP. But failover is special: with the in-kernel auto-enslavement mechanism, the userspace expectation for device enumeration and bring-up order is already broken. Previously initramfs and various userspace config tools were modified to bypass failover slaves because of auto-enslavement and duplicate MAC address. Similarly, in case that users care about seeing reliable slave name, the new type of failover slaves needs to be taken care of specifically in userspace anyway. It's less risky to lift up the rename restriction on failover slave which is already UP. Although it's possible this change may potentially break userspace component (most likely configuration scripts or management software) that assumes slave name can't be changed while UP, it's relatively a limited and controllable set among all userspace components, which can be fixed specifically to listen for the rename events on failover slaves. Userspace component interacting with slaves is expected to be changed to operate on failover master interface instead, as the failover slave is dynamic in nature which may come and go at any point. The goal is to make the role of failover slaves less relevant, and userspace components should only deal with failover master in the long run. Fixes: 30c8bd5aa8b2 ("net: Introduce generic failover module") Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu Reviewed-by: Liran Alon Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2019-03-02T20:54:35+00:00

net: Remove switchdev_ops

2019-02-27T20:39:56+00:00

Now that we have converted all possible callers to using a switchdev notifier for attributes we do not have a need for implementing switchdev_ops anymore, and this can be removed from all drivers the net_device structure. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dev: Use unsigned integer as an argument to left-shift

2019-02-27T17:34:39+00:00

1 << 31 is Undefined Behaviour according to the C standard. Use U type modifier to avoid theoretical overflow. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

devlink: create a special NDO for getting the devlink instance

2019-02-26T16:49:05+00:00

Instead of iterating over all devlink ports add a NDO which will return the devlink instance from the driver. v2: add the netdev_to_devlink() helper (Michal) v3: check that devlink has ops (Florian) v4: hold devlink_mutex (Jiri) Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dev: add generic protodown handler

2019-02-24T21:01:04+00:00

Introduce dev_change_proto_down_generic, a generic ndo_change_proto_down implementation, which sets the netdev carrier state according to proto_down. This adds the ability to set protodown on vxlan and macvlan devices in a generic way for use by control protocols like VRRPD. Signed-off-by: Andy Roulin Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Introduce parse_protocol header_ops callback

2019-02-22T20:55:31+00:00

Introduce a new optional header_ops callback called parse_protocol and a wrapper function dev_parse_header_protocol, similar to dev_parse_header. The new callback's purpose is to extract the protocol number from the L2 header, the format of which is known to the driver, but not to the upper layers of the stack. Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2019-02-17T06:56:34+00:00

Alexei Starovoitov says: ==================== pull-request: bpf-next 2019-02-16 The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree. The main changes are: 1) numerous libbpf API improvements, from Andrii, Andrey, Yonghong. 2) test all bpf progs in alu32 mode, from Jiong. 3) skb->sk access and bpf_sk_fullsock(), bpf_tcp_sock() helpers, from Martin. 4) support for IP encap in lwt bpf progs, from Peter. 5) remove XDP_QUERY_XSK_UMEM dead code, from Jan. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: bpf: remove XDP_QUERY_XSK_UMEM enumerator

2019-02-15T14:14:22+00:00

Commit c9b47cc1fabc ("xsk: fix bug when trying to use both copy and zero-copy on one queue id") moved the umem query code to the AF_XDP core, and therefore removed the need to query the netdevice for a umem. This patch removes XDP_QUERY_XSK_UMEM and all code that implement that behavior, which is just dead code. Signed-off-by: Jan Sokolowski Acked-by: Björn Töpel Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2019-02-08T23:00:17+00:00

An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'. Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow action conversion in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller