[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Skip down interfaces (v2)

[Oren Laadan]

Acked and pulled for v21-rc2, thanks.

Dan Smith wrote:
> This makes the netns checkpoint code skip interfaces that are not up.
> Later, we want to make it possible to checkpoint down interfaces with
> a flag, but for now this helps prevent people from getting stuck on
> stock kernels with various unsupported and persistent virtual interfaces,
> such as tunnel devices.
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Fix logic to only skip down interfaces if they're not supported
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <danms at us.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  net/checkpoint_dev.c |   11 ++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/checkpoint_dev.c b/net/checkpoint_dev.c
> index bc0415d..e8d574c 100644
> --- a/net/checkpoint_dev.c
> +++ b/net/checkpoint_dev.c
> @@ -268,7 +268,16 @@ int checkpoint_netns(struct ckpt_ctx *ctx, void *ptr)
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
> -		ret = checkpoint_obj(ctx, dev, CKPT_OBJ_NETDEV);
> +		if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_checkpoint)
> +			ret = checkpoint_obj(ctx, dev, CKPT_OBJ_NETDEV);
> +		else if (dev->flags & IFF_UP)
> +			ret = -ENOSYS;
> +		else
> +			/* TODO: There should be a flag to attempt a
> +			 * checkpoint of downed interfaces, regardless
> +			 * of whether they support checkpoint or not.
> +			 */
> +			ret = 0;
>  		if (ret < 0)
>  			break;
>  	}
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