linux/net/core
Daniel Lezcano aaf8cdc34d netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs
When a netdev is moved across namespaces with the
'dev_change_net_namespace' function, the 'device_rename' function is
used to fixup kobject and refresh the sysfs tree. The device_rename
function will call kobject_rename and this one will check if there is
an object with the same name and this is the case because we are
renaming the object with the same name.

The use of 'device_rename' seems for me wrong because we usually don't
rename it but just move it across namespaces. As we just want to do a
mini "netdev_[un]register", IMO the functions
'netdev_[un]register_kobject' should be used instead, like an usual
network device [un]registering.

This patch replace device_rename by netdev_unregister_kobject,
followed by netdev_register_kobject.

The netdev_register_kobject will call device_initialize and will raise
a warning indicating the device was already initialized. In order to
fix that, I split the device initialization into a separate function
and use it together with 'netdev_register_kobject' into
register_netdevice. So we can safely call 'netdev_register_kobject' in
'dev_change_net_namespace'.

This fix will allow to properly use the sysfs per namespace which is
coming from -mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02 17:00:58 -07:00
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Makefile
datagram.c
dev.c netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs 2008-05-02 17:00:58 -07:00
dev_mcast.c
dst.c
ethtool.c ethtool: EEPROM dump no longer works for tg3 and natsemi 2008-04-24 20:55:56 -07:00
fib_rules.c [NETNS]: Add netns refcnt debug to fib rules. 2008-04-16 02:01:56 -07:00
filter.c net: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers 2008-05-02 16:26:16 -07:00
flow.c net: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:15:50 -04:00
gen_estimator.c
gen_stats.c
iovec.c
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c
neighbour.c net: assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc tree 2008-05-02 02:46:22 -07:00
net-sysfs.c netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs 2008-05-02 17:00:58 -07:00
net-sysfs.h netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs 2008-05-02 17:00:58 -07:00
net_namespace.c [NETNS]: Make netns refconting debug like a socket one. 2008-04-16 01:58:04 -07:00
netevent.c
netpoll.c
pktgen.c net: assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc tree 2008-05-02 02:46:22 -07:00
request_sock.c
rtnetlink.c [RTNETLINK]: Fix bogus ASSERT_RTNL warning 2008-04-23 22:10:48 -07:00
scm.c
skbuff.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-14 02:30:23 -07:00
sock.c net: Add missing braces to multi-statement if()s 2008-05-02 16:20:10 -07:00
stream.c
sysctl_net_core.c
user_dma.c
utils.c