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authorNicolas Dichtel <[email protected]>2015-04-02 15:07:10 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>2015-04-02 18:05:01 +0000
commite1622baf54df8cc958bf29d71de5ad545ea7d93c (patch)
tree4a019a2a3e79c4fc9706b91cbb55d2cd053065d4 /net/core/dev.c
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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-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);