The logic to configure a network interface for kernel IP
auto-configuration is very simplistic, and does not handle the case
where a device is stacked onto another such as with DSA. This causes the
kernel not to open and configure the master network device in a DSA
switch tree, and therefore slave network devices using this master
network devices as conduit device cannot be open.
This restriction comes from a check in net/dsa/slave.c, which is
basically checking the master netdev flags for IFF_UP and returns
-ENETDOWN if it is not the case.
Automatically bringing-up DSA master network devices allows DSA slave
network devices to be used as valid interfaces for e.g: NFS root booting
by allowing kernel IP autoconfiguration to succeed on these interfaces.
On the reverse path, make sure we do not attempt to close a DSA-enabled
device as this would implicitely prevent the slave DSA network device
from operating.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- fixed typo in first comment hunk
- remove spurious newline change
- removed second comment, the code is obvious enough
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 7fa18bc7e47f..b26376ef87f6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ static int __init ic_open_devs(void)
last = &ic_first_dev;
rtnl_lock();
- /* bring loopback device up first */
+ /* bring loopback and DSA master network devices up first */
for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
- if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK))
+ if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) && !netdev_uses_dsa(dev))
continue;
if (dev_change_flags(dev, dev->flags | IFF_UP) < 0)
pr_err("IP-Config: Failed to open %s\n", dev->name);
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static void __init ic_close_devs(void)
while ((d = next)) {
next = d->next;
dev = d->dev;
- if (dev != ic_dev) {
+ if (dev != ic_dev && !netdev_uses_dsa(dev)) {
DBG(("IP-Config: Downing %s\n", dev->name));
dev_change_flags(dev, d->flags);
}
--
2.1.0
