This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: allow macvlans to move to net namespace to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-allow-macvlans-to-move-to-net-namespace.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Oct 12 20:11:55 CEST 2014 From: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:40:44 -0700 Subject: net: allow macvlans to move to net namespace From: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0d0162e7a33d3710b9604e7c68c0f31f5c457428 ] I cannot move a macvlan interface created on top of a bonding interface to a different namespace: % ip netns add dummy0 % ip link add link bond0 mac0 type macvlan % ip link set mac0 netns dummy0 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument % The problem seems to be that commit f9399814927a ("bonding: Don't allow bond devices to change network namespaces.") sets NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL on bonding interfaces, and commit 797f87f83b60 ("macvlan: fix netdev feature propagation from lower device") causes macvlan interfaces to inherit its features from the lower device. NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL should not be inherited from the lower device by a macvlan. Patch tested on 3.16. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ static netdev_features_t macvlan_fix_fea features, mask); features |= ALWAYS_ON_FEATURES; + features &= ~NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; return features; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fruggeri@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/net-allow-macvlans-to-move-to-net-namespace.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html