The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a
given net-device comes from. Three different values are currently defined:
NET_NAME_ENUM:
This is the default. The ifname is provided by the kernel with an
enumerated suffix. Names may be reused and unstable.
NET_NAME_USER:
The ifname was provided by user-space during net-device setup.
NET_NAME_RENAMED:
The net-device has been renamed via RTNL. Once this type is set, it
cannot change again.
This attribute comes in handy for reliable net-device names. If an ifname
is provided by user-space, we can safely assume that the naming-policy
avoids reuse and is stable. Only if it was set by the kernel, the
interfaces might need to be renamed.
The NET_NAME_RENAMED value allows us to detect whether some-one else
already renamed the device, in which case we shouldn't touch it again. The
NET_NAME_USER value allows us to detect whether some other naming policy
created the device, in which case there's no need to rename it.
The most significant use-case is to detect virtual wifi-P2P devices, which
are named by wpa_supplicant et al. We shouldn't rename them as wpas
already provides a proper naming-policy.
Note that this patch only provides the core infrastructure. The different
net-dev types need to be manually fixed to use NET_NAME_USER instead of
the default (NET_NAME_ENUM). NET_NAME_ENUM is the least restrictive,
though, so it seems safe to use it as fallback for non-converted net-dev
types.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- move api constants to uapi header (Ben Hutchings)
v4:
- move name_assign_type so we avoid needless padding (David Laight)
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h | 4 ++++
net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++++
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 ++
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 ++
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index b8d8c80..1d48cee 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1376,6 +1376,8 @@ struct net_device {
struct kset *queues_kset;
#endif
+ unsigned char name_assign_type; /* name assignment type */
+
bool uc_promisc;
unsigned int promiscuity;
unsigned int allmulti;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h b/include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h
index 6b9500b..ea963e4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
/* Initial net device group. All devices belong to group 0 by default. */
#define INIT_NETDEV_GROUP 0
+/* interface name assignment types (sysfs name_assign_type attribute) */
+#define NET_NAME_ENUM 0 /* enumerated by kernel (default) */
+#define NET_NAME_USER 1 /* provided by user-space */
+#define NET_NAME_RENAMED 2 /* renamed by user-space */
/* Media selection options. */
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 587f9fb..4a2b360 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1083,6 +1083,7 @@ static int dev_get_valid_name(struct net *net,
int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
{
char oldname[IFNAMSIZ];
+ unsigned char old_assign_type;
int err = 0;
int ret;
struct net *net;
@@ -1109,10 +1110,14 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname)
return err;
}
+ old_assign_type = dev->name_assign_type;
+ dev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_RENAMED;
+
rollback:
ret = device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
if (ret) {
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
+ dev->name_assign_type = old_assign_type;
write_seqcount_end(&devnet_rename_seq);
return ret;
}
@@ -1141,6 +1146,8 @@ rollback:
write_seqcount_begin(&devnet_rename_seq);
memcpy(dev->name, oldname, IFNAMSIZ);
memcpy(oldname, newname, IFNAMSIZ);
+ dev->name_assign_type = old_assign_type;
+ old_assign_type = NET_NAME_RENAMED;
goto rollback;
} else {
pr_err("%s: name change rollback failed: %d\n",
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index daed9a6..886403e 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ static ssize_t netdev_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(dev_id, fmt_hex);
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(dev_port, fmt_dec);
+NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(name_assign_type, fmt_dec);
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(addr_assign_type, fmt_dec);
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(addr_len, fmt_dec);
NETDEVICE_SHOW_RO(iflink, fmt_dec);
@@ -377,6 +378,7 @@ static struct attribute *net_class_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_dev_port.attr,
&dev_attr_iflink.attr,
&dev_attr_ifindex.attr,
+ &dev_attr_name_assign_type.attr,
&dev_attr_addr_assign_type.attr,
&dev_attr_addr_len.attr,
&dev_attr_link_mode.attr,
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index fc122fd..f1bd0fe 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1967,6 +1967,8 @@ replay:
}
dev->ifindex = ifm->ifi_index;
+ if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
+ dev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER;
if (ops->newlink) {
err = ops->newlink(net, dev, tb, data);
--
1.9.0
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