macvtap: Rewrite macvtap_newlink so the error handling works.
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:28:46 +0000 (04:28 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:53:07 +0000 (02:53 -0400)
Place macvlan_common_newlink at the end of macvtap_newlink because
failing in newlink after registering your network device is not
supported.

Move device_create into a netdevice creation notifier.   The network device
notifier is the only hook that is called after the network device has been
registered with the device layer and before register_network_device returns
success.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/macvtap.c

index 515aa873929ea402be671f631919e88f53dbb337..25689e9df3b7bcdb8dfefb186ddb63f456cda8ed 100644 (file)
@@ -280,34 +280,16 @@ static int macvtap_newlink(struct net *src_net,
                           struct nlattr *tb[],
                           struct nlattr *data[])
 {
-       struct device *classdev;
-       dev_t devt;
-       int err;
-
-       err = macvlan_common_newlink(src_net, dev, tb, data,
-                                    macvtap_receive, macvtap_forward);
-       if (err)
-               goto out;
-
-       devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(macvtap_major), dev->ifindex);
-
-       classdev = device_create(macvtap_class, &dev->dev, devt,
-                                dev, "tap%d", dev->ifindex);
-       if (IS_ERR(classdev)) {
-               err = PTR_ERR(classdev);
-               macvtap_del_queues(dev);
-       }
-
-out:
-       return err;
+       /* Don't put anything that may fail after macvlan_common_newlink
+        * because we can't undo what it does.
+        */
+       return macvlan_common_newlink(src_net, dev, tb, data,
+                                     macvtap_receive, macvtap_forward);
 }
 
 static void macvtap_dellink(struct net_device *dev,
                            struct list_head *head)
 {
-       device_destroy(macvtap_class,
-                      MKDEV(MAJOR(macvtap_major), dev->ifindex));
-
        macvtap_del_queues(dev);
        macvlan_dellink(dev, head);
 }
@@ -975,6 +957,42 @@ struct socket *macvtap_get_socket(struct file *file)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(macvtap_get_socket);
 
+static int macvtap_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
+                               unsigned long event, void *ptr)
+{
+       struct net_device *dev = ptr;
+       struct device *classdev;
+       dev_t devt;
+
+       if (dev->rtnl_link_ops != &macvtap_link_ops)
+               return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
+
+       switch (event) {
+       case NETDEV_REGISTER:
+               /* Create the device node here after the network device has
+                * been registered but before register_netdevice has
+                * finished running.
+                */
+               devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(macvtap_major), dev->ifindex);
+               classdev = device_create(macvtap_class, &dev->dev, devt,
+                                        dev, "tap%d", dev->ifindex);
+               if (IS_ERR(classdev))
+                       return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(classdev));
+               break;
+       case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
+               devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(macvtap_major), dev->ifindex);
+               device_destroy(macvtap_class, devt);
+               break;
+       }
+
+       return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block macvtap_notifier_block __read_mostly = {
+       .notifier_call  = macvtap_device_event,
+};
+
 static int macvtap_init(void)
 {
        int err;
@@ -995,12 +1013,18 @@ static int macvtap_init(void)
                goto out3;
        }
 
-       err = macvlan_link_register(&macvtap_link_ops);
+       err = register_netdevice_notifier(&macvtap_notifier_block);
        if (err)
                goto out4;
 
+       err = macvlan_link_register(&macvtap_link_ops);
+       if (err)
+               goto out5;
+
        return 0;
 
+out5:
+       unregister_netdevice_notifier(&macvtap_notifier_block);
 out4:
        class_unregister(macvtap_class);
 out3:
@@ -1015,6 +1039,7 @@ module_init(macvtap_init);
 static void macvtap_exit(void)
 {
        rtnl_link_unregister(&macvtap_link_ops);
+       unregister_netdevice_notifier(&macvtap_notifier_block);
        class_unregister(macvtap_class);
        cdev_del(&macvtap_cdev);
        unregister_chrdev_region(macvtap_major, MACVTAP_NUM_DEVS);