Make rtnl_newlink_create() create device in target namespace directly.
Avoid extra netns change when link netns is provided.
Device drivers has been converted to be aware of link netns, that is not
assuming device netns is and link netns is the same when ops->newlink()
is called.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index e980481bdd28..b52e610e157e 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3789,8 +3789,8 @@ static int rtnl_newlink_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
name_assign_type = NET_NAME_ENUM;
}
- dev = rtnl_create_link(link_net ? : tgt_net, ifname,
- name_assign_type, ops, tb, extack);
+ dev = rtnl_create_link(tgt_net, ifname, name_assign_type, ops, tb,
+ extack);
if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dev);
goto out;
@@ -3810,11 +3810,6 @@ static int rtnl_newlink_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm, portid, nlh);
if (err < 0)
goto out_unregister;
- if (link_net) {
- err = dev_change_net_namespace(dev, tgt_net, ifname);
- if (err < 0)
- goto out_unregister;
- }
if (tb[IFLA_MASTER]) {
err = do_set_master(dev, nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MASTER]), extack);
if (err)
--
2.48.1
