Ben Greear wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> [VLAN]: Use rtnl_link API >> >> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> +static int vlan_newlink(struct net_device *dev, >> + struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[]) >> +{ >> + struct vlan_dev_info *vlan = VLAN_DEV_INFO(dev); >> + int err; >> + >> + if (!tb[IFLA_LINK]) >> + return -EINVAL; >> + if (!data[IFLA_VLAN_ID]) >> + return -EINVAL; >> + >> + vlan->vlan_id = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_VLAN_ID]); >> + vlan->real_dev = __dev_get_by_index(nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_LINK])); > > > It seems you are scribbling on dev->priv before you validate that > it is OK to do so? > > Or, maybe I'm just confused. > > What is 'dev' here?
Its a newly created device, not registered at this point. The vlan_dev_info structure is used to communicate the settings to vlan_dev_init() (also by the ioctl wrapper). > Other than this, this patch and the others in this series > look fine (except for the 4095 VID issue that we communicated > about earlier). Thanks, I'll fix that, add the remaining bits, and repost. I think its only REORDER_HDR support that is still missing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html