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authorNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>2015-04-02 17:07:10 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-04-02 14:05:01 -0400
commite1622baf54df8cc958bf29d71de5ad545ea7d93c (patch)
tree4a019a2a3e79c4fc9706b91cbb55d2cd053065d4
parentnet: remove iflink field from struct net_device (diff)
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dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual interfaces
Virtual interfaces are supposed to set an iflink value != of their ifindex. It was not the case for some of them, like vxlan, bond or bridge. Let's set iflink to 0 when dev->rtnl_link_ops is set. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 3be107e0bc93..26622d614f81 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -672,6 +672,10 @@ int dev_get_iflink(const struct net_device *dev)
if (dev->netdev_ops && dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_iflink)
return dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_iflink(dev);
+ /* If dev->rtnl_link_ops is set, it's a virtual interface. */
+ if (dev->rtnl_link_ops)
+ return 0;
+
return dev->ifindex;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_iflink);