tunnels: Don't require remote endpoint or ID during creation.
authorJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:36:00 +0000 (16:36 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:44:10 +0000 (22:44 -0700)
Before lightweight tunnels existed, it really didn't make sense to
create a tunnel that was not fully specified, such as without a
destination IP address - the resulting packets would go nowhere.
However, with lightweight tunnels, the opposite is true - it doesn't
make sense to require this information when it will be provided later
on by the route. This loosens the requirements for this information.

An alternative would be to allow the relaxed version only when
COLLECT_METADATA is enabled. However, since there are several
variations on this theme (such as NBMA tunnels in GRE), just dropping
the restrictions seems the most consistent across tunnels and with
the existing configuration.

CC: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/geneve.c
drivers/net/vxlan.c

index 8f5c02eed47de09883b43b8b587717993064ef0b..cde29f8a37bfebe036273f3a76bbc24b0e034fff 100644 (file)
@@ -870,14 +870,14 @@ static int geneve_newlink(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
        __be16 dst_port = htons(GENEVE_UDP_PORT);
        __u8 ttl = 0, tos = 0;
        bool metadata = false;
-       __be32 rem_addr;
-       __u32 vni;
+       __be32 rem_addr = 0;
+       __u32 vni = 0;
 
-       if (!data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID] || !data[IFLA_GENEVE_REMOTE])
-               return -EINVAL;
+       if (data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID])
+               vni = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID]);
 
-       vni = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_GENEVE_ID]);
-       rem_addr = nla_get_in_addr(data[IFLA_GENEVE_REMOTE]);
+       if (data[IFLA_GENEVE_REMOTE])
+               rem_addr = nla_get_in_addr(data[IFLA_GENEVE_REMOTE]);
 
        if (data[IFLA_GENEVE_TTL])
                ttl = nla_get_u8(data[IFLA_GENEVE_TTL]);
index bbac1d35ed4e37450a3282b4b7f9dc41dabcd4e8..afdc65fd5bc57c9101c9ffcb4aeac7cfe2431a63 100644 (file)
@@ -2745,11 +2745,10 @@ static int vxlan_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
        struct vxlan_config conf;
        int err;
 
-       if (!data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID])
-               return -EINVAL;
-
        memset(&conf, 0, sizeof(conf));
-       conf.vni = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID]);
+
+       if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID])
+               conf.vni = nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_VXLAN_ID]);
 
        if (data[IFLA_VXLAN_GROUP]) {
                conf.remote_ip.sin.sin_addr.s_addr = nla_get_in_addr(data[IFLA_VXLAN_GROUP]);