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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> | 2012-08-09 01:53:36 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-10 03:18:07 +0400 |
| commit | 1fb9489bf190ce2b3fc03891f3de4b2d30600e28 (patch) | |
| tree | da4e17036949e72ae0b1f0fc3b6b31557de18353 /include | |
| parent | aa79e66eee5d525e2fcbd2a5fcb87ae3dd4aa9e9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1fb9489bf190ce2b3fc03891f3de4b2d30600e28.tar.xz | |
net: Loopback ifindex is constant now
As pointed out, there are places, that access net->loopback_dev->ifindex
and after ifindex generation is made per-net this value becomes constant
equals 1. So go ahead and introduce the LOOPBACK_IFINDEX constant and use
it where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/net_namespace.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h index 6dc3db3466bf..97e441945c13 100644 --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ struct net { struct sock *diag_nlsk; }; +/* + * ifindex generation is per-net namespace, and loopback is + * always the 1st device in ns (see net_dev_init), thus any + * loopback device should get ifindex 1 + */ + +#define LOOPBACK_IFINDEX 1 #include <linux/seq_file_net.h> |