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Jesse Brandeburg
4e8186b68f e1000e: implement MDI/MDI-X control
Some users report issues with link failing when connected to certain
switches.  This gives the user the ability to control the MDI state
from the driver, allowing users to work around some improperly
behaving switches.

Forcing in this driver is for now only allowed when auto-neg is
enabled.

This is in regards to the related ethtool app patch and
bugzilla.kernel.org bug 11998

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: bruce.w.allan@intel.com
CC: n.poppelier@xs4all.nl
CC: bastien@durel.org
CC: jsveiga@it.eng.br
Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-08-21 01:26:45 -07:00
Jesse Brandeburg
c819bbd5ec e1000: configure and read MDI settings
This is the implementation in e1000 to allow ethtool to force
MDI state, allowing users to work around some improperly
behaving switches.

Forcing in this driver is for now only allowed when auto-neg is enabled.

To use must have the matching version of ethtool app that supports
this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-08-21 01:25:34 -07:00
Jesse Brandeburg
1b556783ab igb: implement 580 MDI setting support
In order for igb to support MDI setting support via
ethtool this code is needed to allow setting the MDI state
via software.

This is in regards to the related ethtool patch

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-08-21 01:24:05 -07:00
Bruce W Allan
e86fd89188 e1000e: implement 82577/579 MDI setting support
In order for e1000e to support MDI setting support via
ethtool this code is needed to allow setting the MDI state
via software.

This is in regards to the related ethtool patch and
fixes bugzilla.kernel.org bug 11998

Signed-off-by: Bruce W Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-08-21 01:22:56 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
1d76efe157 team: add support for non-ethernet devices
This is resolved by two things:
1) allow dev_addr of different length than ETH_ALEN
2) during port add, check for dev->type and change it if necessary

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-20 02:40:48 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
62748b7bde ixgbe: Rewrite code related to configuring IFCS bit in Tx descriptor
This change updates the code related to configuring the transmit frame
checksum.  Specifically I have updated the code so that we can only skip
inserting the checksum in the case that we are not performing some other
offload that will modify the frame data.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:47 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
5a02cbd10d ixgbe: Roll RSC code into non-EOP code
This change moves the RSC code into the non-EOP descriptor handling
function. The main motivation behind this change is to help reduce the
overhead in the non-RSC case. Previously the non-RSC path code would
always be checking for append count even if RSC had been disabled. Now
this code is completely skipped in a single conditional check instead of
having to make two separate checks.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:45 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
18806c9ea2 ixgbe: Make allocating skb and placing data in it a separate function
This patch creates a function named ixgbe_fetch_rx_buffer. The sole
purpose of this function is to retrieve a single buffer off of the ring and
to place it in an skb.

The advantage to doing this is that it helps improve the readability since
I can decrease the indentation and for the code in this section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:42 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
cf3fe7aca0 ixgbe: Copybreak sooner to avoid get_page/put_page and offset change overhead
This change makes it so that if only the first 256 bytes of a buffer are
used we just copy the data out and leave the offset and page count
unchanged. There are multiple advantages to this. First it allows us to
reuse the page much more in the case of pages larger than 4K. It also
allows us to avoid some expensive atomic operations in the form of
get_page/put_page. In perf I have seen CPU utilization for put_page drop
from 3.5% to 1.8% as a result of this patch when doing small packet routing,
and packet rates increased by about 3%.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:39 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
19861ce24f ixgbe: Make pull tail function separate from rest of cleanup_headers
This change creates a separate function for functionality similar to
pskb_pull_tail.  The main motivation for moving it to a separate function
is so that later I can just skip this function in the case where we have
already copied the buffer into skb->head.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:35 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
42073d91a2 ixgbe: Have the CPU take ownership of the buffers sooner
This patch makes it so that we will always have ownership of the buffers by
the time we get to ixgbe_add_rx_frag. This is necessary as I am planning to
add a copy-break to ixgbe_add_rx_frag and in order for that to function
correctly we need the CPU to have ownership of the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:32 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
09816fbea9 ixgbe: Only use double buffering if page size is less than 8K
This change makes it so that we do not use double buffering if the page
size is larger than 4K.  Instead we will simply walk through the page using
up to 3K per receive, and if we receive less than we only move the offset
by that amount.  We will free the page when there is no longer any space
left that we can use instead of checking the page count to see if we can
cycle back to the start.

The main motivation behind this is to avoid the unnecessary truesize cost
for using a half page when most packets are 2K or smaller. With this new
approach the largest possible truesize for a page fragment will be 3K when
PAGE_SIZE is larger than 4K.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:28 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
0549ae20b7 ixgbe: combine ixgbe_add_rx_frag and ixgbe_can_reuse_page
This patch combines ixgbe_add_rx_frag and ixgbe_can_reuse_page into a
single function. The main motivation behind this is to make better use of
the values so that we don't have to load them from memory and into
registers twice.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:25 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
afaa9459de ixgbe: Remove code that was initializing Rx page offset
This change reverts an earlier patch that introduced
ixgbe_init_rx_page_offset. The idea behind the function was to provide
some variation in the starting offset for the page in order to reduce
hot-spots in the cache. However it doesn't appear to provide any
significant benefit in the testing I have done. It has however been a
source of several bugs, and it blocks us from being able to use 2K
fragments on larger page sizes. So the decision I made was to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
2012-08-16 15:44:00 -07:00
John W. Linville
16698918cd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-08-15 14:29:37 -04:00
Amerigo Wang
b7bc2a5b5b net: remove netdev_bonding_change()
I don't see any benifits to use netdev_bonding_change() than
using call_netdevice_notifiers() directly.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-14 14:28:24 -07:00
Amerigo Wang
ee89bab14e net: move and rename netif_notify_peers()
I believe net/core/dev.c is a better place for netif_notify_peers(),
because other net event notify functions also stay in this file.

And rename it to netdev_notify_peers().

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-14 14:28:23 -07:00
Christian Lamparter
22c5649eef p54: fix powerpc gcc warnings
My commit "p54: parse output power table" introduced
the following compiler warnings for powerpc-allmodconfig

eeprom.c: In function 'p54_get_maxpower':
eeprom.c:291 warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
eeporm.c:292 warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
eeprom.c:293 warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
eeprom.c:294 warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

This patch fixes those by using max_t(u16
which forces a type cast.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-13 15:28:35 -04:00
Jeff Mahoney
faa97bd4a4 brcmsmac: document firmware dependencies
The brcmsmac driver requests firmware but doesn't document the
dependency. This means that software that analyzes the modules to
determine if firmware is needed won't detect it.

Specifically, (at least) openSUSE won't install the kernel-firmware
package if no hardware requires it.

This patch adds the MODULE_FIRMWARE directives.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:21 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
c771b51819 ath9k: tune rc_stats to display only valid rates
This could make rc_stats more simpler and ease the debugging.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:20 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
23d9939459 ath9k: Trim rate table
Remove ctrl_rate, cw40index, sgi_index, ht_index and calculate
the rate index for TX status from the valid_rate_index that
is populated at initialization time.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:19 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
f8a87017f4 ath9k: Remove MIMO-PS specific code
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:18 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
88dcc2dd71 ath9k: Cleanup TX status API
Calculate the final rate index inside ath_rc_tx_status().

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:17 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
c1610117f8 ath9k: Bail out properly before calculating rate index
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:16 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
2e546755b9 ath9k: Fix RTS/CTS rate selection
The current method of assigning the RTS/CTS rate is completely
broken for HT mode and breaks P2P operation. Fix this by using
the basic_rates provided to the driver by mac80211. For now,
choose the lowest supported basic rate for HT frames.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:15 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
97f7e8a785 ath9k: Do not set IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_SHORT_PREAMBLE
mac80211 does it for us.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:14 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
3d2776f621 ath9k: Unify valid rate calculation routines
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:13 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
f5c9a80493 ath9k: Remove ath_rc_set_valid_rate_idx
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:12 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
6e1e374322 ath9k: Change rateset calculation
Commit "ath9k: Change rate control to use legacy rate as last MRR"
resulted in the mixing of HT/legacy rates in a single rateset,
which is undesirable. Revert this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:11 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
fc8d023834 ath9k: Cleanup index retrieval routines
Trim API and remove unused variables.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:10 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
dacde35708 ath9k: Cleanup ath_rc_setvalid_htrates
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:09 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
c05ea15177 ath9k: Cleanup ath_rc_setvalid_rates
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:08 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
ea2771f642 ath9k: Cleanup RC init API
A reference to the rate table is stored inside the
private structure, so there is no need to pass "rate_table"
around.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:07 -04:00
Sujith Manoharan
62a291869b ath9k: Simplify rate table initialization
Remove various local variables that duplicate information
already stored in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:06 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
126f492355 mwifiex: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
We're holding the sta_list_spinlock here so we can't sleep.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:05 -04:00
Amitkumar Karwar
9c7ff737b6 mwifiex: notify cfg80211 about MIC failures
Call cfg80211_michael_mic_failure() handler when there is a MIC error
event from firmware.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:04 -04:00
Bing Zhao
641c869d40 mwifiex: fix 'smatch' warning in preparing key_material cmd
The key length can be 32 bytes for TKIP and 16 bytes for AES_CMAC.
'smatch' warns on memcpy using key_len variable to copy data to
a 16 bytes buffer. Use fixed length to avoid the warning.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:03 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki
85ce5ae526 b43legacy: fix logic in GPIO init
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:01 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki
6c1872369d b43: N-PHY: fix 0x2057 radio calib copy/paste mistake
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:27:01 -04:00
Bing Zhao
8dd4372e2a mwifiex: fix powerpc64-linux- compilation warnings
These warnings can be detected by using powerpc64-linux toolchain
(gcc-4.6.3-nolibc).

  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_event.o
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_event.c: In function 'mwifiex_process_sta_event':
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_event.c:388:4: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.o
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c: In function 'mwifiex_process_uap_event':
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/uap_event.c:258:11: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]

Use min_t() instead of min() to fix the warnings.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:59 -04:00
Johannes Berg
450e9038ee iwlegacy: clean up suspend/resume
There's no need to export the il_pci_suspend
and il_pci_resume functions since they're only
referenced from il_pm_ops. The latter can also
be defined using SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS instead of
open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:59 -04:00
Fengguang Wu
2f9279b556 mwifiex: fix code mis-alignment after the if statement
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:58 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
987af54fa9 ath5k: Put power_level where it belongs and rename it
Put power_level to ah_txpower struct with the rest tx power infos and
also rename it to txp_requested to make more sense.

v2 make sure we don't memset it to zero on reset

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:57 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
493ca5ef4e ath5k: Preserve tx power level requested from above on phy_init
By using cur_pwr on phy_init we re-use the power level previously set by the
driver, not the one we got from above.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:56 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
755051993b ath5k: Fix range scaling when setting rate power table
rates[i] is unsigned but txp_offset can be negative for newer parts
with PDADC table. We cover the case when rates[i] + txp_offset > 63
but we must also cover the case when its < 0 or else rates[i] will overflow.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:55 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
d12c5c53ce ath5k: Use correct value for min_pwr and cur_pwr
Make sure we don't store the table offsets for min and cur power levels,
store the 0.25dB values instead. This way we don't clamp the tx power level
to max (because now cur_pwr holds the 0.25dB value, not the table offset) after
re-using cur_pwr on reset.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:26:55 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
9bc63816be p54: parse output power table
For the upcoming tpc changes, the driver needs
to provide sensible max output values for each
supported channel.

And while the eeprom always had a output_limit
table, which defines the upper limit for each
frequency and modulation, it was never really
useful for anything... until now.

Note: For anyone wondering about what your card
is calibrated for: check "iw list".
	* 2412 MHz [1] (18.0 dBm)
	* 2437 MHz [6] (19.0 dBm)
	[...]
	* 5180 MHz [36] (18.0 dBm)
	* 5260 MHz [52] (17.0 dBm) (radar detection)
	* 5680 MHz [136] (19.0 dBm) (radar detection)
(for a Dell Wireless 1450 USB Adapter)

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-08-10 15:17:14 -04:00
Haiyang Zhang
0f48917b93 hyperv: Add comments for the extended buffer after RNDIS message
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-09 16:44:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
1fb9489bf1 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>
2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e6f8f1a739 veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex
The ifinfomsg is in there (thanks kaber@ for foreseeing this long time ago),
so take the given ifidex and register netdev with it.

Ben noticed, that this code path previously ignored ifmp->ifi_index and
userland could be passing in garbage. Thus it may now fail occasionally
because the value clashes with an existing interface.

To address this it's assumed that if the caller specifies the ifindex for
the veth master device, then it's aware of this possibility and should
explicitly specify (or set to 0 for auto-assignment) the peer's ifindex as
well. With this the compatibility with old tools not setting ifindex is
preserved.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00