[PATCH 3.16 25/55] net: allow macvlans to move to net namespace

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0d0162e7a33d3710b9604e7c68c0f31f5c457428 ]

I cannot move a macvlan interface created on top of a bonding interface
to a different namespace:

% ip netns add dummy0
% ip link add link bond0 mac0 type macvlan
% ip link set mac0 netns dummy0
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
%

The problem seems to be that commit f9399814927a ("bonding: Don't allow
bond devices to change network namespaces.") sets NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
on bonding interfaces, and commit 797f87f83b60 ("macvlan: fix netdev
feature propagation from lower device") causes macvlan interfaces
to inherit its features from the lower device.

NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL should not be inherited from the lower device
by a macvlan.
Patch tested on 3.16.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/macvlan.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_fea
 					     features,
 					     mask);
 	features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES;
+	features &= ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL;
 
 	return features;
 }


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