iflink is currently set to 0 in __gre_tunnel_init(). This function is invoked in gre_tap_init() and ipgre_tunnel_init() which are both used to initialise the ndo_init field of the respective net_device_ops structs (ipgre.. and gre_tap..) used by GRE interfaces.
However, in netdevice_register() iflink is first set to -1, then ndo_init is invoked and then iflink is assigned to a proper value if and only if it still was -1. Assigning 0 to iflink in ndo_init is therefore first preventing netdev_register() to correctly assign it a proper value and then breaking iflink at all since 0 has not correct meaning. Fix this by removing the iflink assignment in __gre_tunnel_init(). Introduced by c54419321455631079c7d6e60bc732dd0c5914c5 ("GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.") Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <or...@autistici.org> --- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index ad662e9..e5dfd28 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -660,7 +660,6 @@ static void __gre_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev) dev->needed_headroom = LL_MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct iphdr) + 4; dev->mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN - sizeof(struct iphdr) - 4; - dev->iflink = 0; dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL | GRE_FEATURES; dev->hw_features |= GRE_FEATURES; -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/