dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes

The goal is to let the user follow an interface that moves to another
netns.

CC: Jiri Benc <[email protected]>
CC: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Benc <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: NicolasDichtel

include/linux/rtnetlink.h

@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ extern int rtnl_put_cacheinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst,
 
 void rtmsg_ifinfo(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned change, gfp_t flags);
 void rtmsg_ifinfo_newnet(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned int change,
-			 gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid);
+			 gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid, int new_ifindex);
 struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev,
 				       unsigned change, u32 event,
-				       gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid);
+				       gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid,
+				       int new_ifindex);
 void rtmsg_ifinfo_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 		       gfp_t flags);
 

include/uapi/linux/if_link.h

@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ enum {
 	IFLA_IF_NETNSID,
 	IFLA_CARRIER_UP_COUNT,
 	IFLA_CARRIER_DOWN_COUNT,
+	IFLA_NEW_IFINDEX,
 	__IFLA_MAX
 };
 

net/core/dev.c

@@ -7360,7 +7360,7 @@ static void rollback_registered_many(struct list_head *head)
 		if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops ||
 		    dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
 			skb = rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, 0,
-						     GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+						     GFP_KERNEL, NULL, 0);
 
 		/*
 		 *	Flush the unicast and multicast chains
@@ -8473,7 +8473,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdev);
 
 int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char *pat)
 {
-	int err, new_nsid;
+	int err, new_nsid, new_ifindex;
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
@@ -8529,8 +8529,16 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
 	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
 	rcu_barrier();
 	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, dev);
+
 	new_nsid = peernet2id_alloc(dev_net(dev), net);
-	rtmsg_ifinfo_newnet(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, GFP_KERNEL, &new_nsid);
+	/* If there is an ifindex conflict assign a new one */
+	if (__dev_get_by_index(net, dev->ifindex))
+		new_ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
+	else
+		new_ifindex = dev->ifindex;
+
+	rtmsg_ifinfo_newnet(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, GFP_KERNEL, &new_nsid,
+			    new_ifindex);
 
 	/*
 	 *	Flush the unicast and multicast chains
@@ -8544,10 +8552,7 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
 
 	/* Actually switch the network namespace */
 	dev_net_set(dev, net);
-
-	/* If there is an ifindex conflict assign a new one */
-	if (__dev_get_by_index(net, dev->ifindex))
-		dev->ifindex = dev_new_index(net);
+	dev->ifindex = new_ifindex;
 
 	/* Send a netdev-add uevent to the new namespace */
 	kobject_uevent(&dev->dev.kobj, KOBJ_ADD);

net/core/rtnetlink.c

@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev,
 	       + rtnl_xdp_size() /* IFLA_XDP */
 	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFLA_EVENT */
 	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFLA_NEW_NETNSID */
+	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFLA_NEW_IFINDEX */
 	       + nla_total_size(1)  /* IFLA_PROTO_DOWN */
 	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFLA_IF_NETNSID */
 	       + nla_total_size(4)  /* IFLA_CARRIER_UP_COUNT */
@@ -1511,7 +1512,8 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			    struct net_device *dev, struct net *src_net,
 			    int type, u32 pid, u32 seq, u32 change,
 			    unsigned int flags, u32 ext_filter_mask,
-			    u32 event, int *new_nsid, int tgt_netnsid)
+			    u32 event, int *new_nsid, int new_ifindex,
+			    int tgt_netnsid)
 {
 	struct ifinfomsg *ifm;
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
@@ -1608,6 +1610,10 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (new_nsid &&
 	    nla_put_s32(skb, IFLA_NEW_NETNSID, *new_nsid) < 0)
 		goto nla_put_failure;
+	if (new_ifindex &&
+	    nla_put_s32(skb, IFLA_NEW_IFINDEX, new_ifindex) < 0)
+		goto nla_put_failure;
+
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (rtnl_fill_link_af(skb, dev, ext_filter_mask))
@@ -1853,7 +1859,7 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 					       NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
 					       cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0,
 					       flags,
-					       ext_filter_mask, 0, NULL,
+					       ext_filter_mask, 0, NULL, 0,
 					       netnsid);
 
 			if (err < 0) {
@@ -3088,7 +3094,7 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, net,
 			       RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid,
 			       nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0, 0, ext_filter_mask,
-			       0, NULL, netnsid);
+			       0, NULL, 0, netnsid);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in if_nlmsg_size */
 		WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
@@ -3184,7 +3190,8 @@ static int rtnl_dump_all(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 
 struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev,
 				       unsigned int change,
-				       u32 event, gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid)
+				       u32 event, gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid,
+				       int new_ifindex)
 {
 	struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -3197,7 +3204,7 @@ struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev,
 
 	err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, dev_net(dev),
 			       type, 0, 0, change, 0, 0, event,
-			       new_nsid, -1);
+			       new_nsid, new_ifindex, -1);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in if_nlmsg_size() */
 		WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
@@ -3220,29 +3227,31 @@ void rtmsg_ifinfo_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, gfp_t flags)
 
 static void rtmsg_ifinfo_event(int type, struct net_device *dev,
 			       unsigned int change, u32 event,
-			       gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid)
+			       gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid, int new_ifindex)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
 	if (dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED)
 		return;
 
-	skb = rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(type, dev, change, event, flags, new_nsid);
+	skb = rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(type, dev, change, event, flags, new_nsid,
+				     new_ifindex);
 	if (skb)
 		rtmsg_ifinfo_send(skb, dev, flags);
 }
 
 void rtmsg_ifinfo(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned int change,
 		  gfp_t flags)
 {
-	rtmsg_ifinfo_event(type, dev, change, rtnl_get_event(0), flags, NULL);
+	rtmsg_ifinfo_event(type, dev, change, rtnl_get_event(0), flags,
+			   NULL, 0);
 }
 
 void rtmsg_ifinfo_newnet(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned int change,
-			 gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid)
+			 gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid, int new_ifindex)
 {
 	rtmsg_ifinfo_event(type, dev, change, rtnl_get_event(0), flags,
-			   new_nsid);
+			   new_nsid, new_ifindex);
 }
 
 static int nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill(struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -4642,7 +4651,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi
 	case NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE:
 	case NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN:
 		rtmsg_ifinfo_event(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, 0, rtnl_get_event(event),
-				   GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+				   GFP_KERNEL, NULL, 0);
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;