[099/264] rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net_namespaces

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Nov 09 2011 - 23:24:11 EST


3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit d2237d35748e7f448a9c2d9dc6a85ef637466e24 upstream.

Renato Westphal noticed that since commit a2835763e130c343ace5320c20d33c281e7097b7
"rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually" was merged
we no longer send a netlink message when a networking device is moved
from one network namespace to another.

Fix this by adding the missing manual notification in dev_change_net_namespaces.

Since all network devices that are processed by dev_change_net_namspaces are
in the initialized state the complicated tests that guard the manual
rtmsg_ifinfo calls in rollback_registered and register_netdevice are
unnecessary and we can just perform a plain notification.

Tested-by: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
net/core/dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6115,6 +6115,7 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_
*/
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev);
+ rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U);

/*
* Flush the unicast and multicast chains


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