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[NET]: Allow netdev REGISTER/CHANGENAME events to fail

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This patch adds code to allow errors to be passed up from event
handlers of NETDEV_REGISTER and NETDEV_CHANGENAME.  It also adds
the notifier_from_errno/notifier_to_errnor helpers to pass the
errno value up to the notifier caller.

If an error is detected when a device is registered, it causes
that operation to fail.  A NETDEV_UNREGISTER will be sent to
all event handlers.

Similarly if NETDEV_CHANGENAME fails the original name is restored
and a new NETDEV_CHANGENAME event is sent.

As such all event handlers must be idempotent with respect to
these events.

When an event handler is registered NETDEV_REGISTER events are
sent for all devices currently registered.  Should any of them
fail, we will send NETDEV_GOING_DOWN/NETDEV_DOWN/NETDEV_UNREGISTER
events to that handler for the devices which have already been
registered with it.  The handler registration itself will fail.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu 2007-07-30 17:03:38 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent aeed9e82cd
commit fcc5a03ac4
2 changed files with 65 additions and 10 deletions
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include/linux/notifier.h
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@ -157,6 +157,19 @@ extern int __srcu_notifier_call_chain(struct srcu_notifier_head *nh,
*/
#define NOTIFY_STOP (NOTIFY_OK|NOTIFY_STOP_MASK)
/* Encapsulate (negative) errno value (in particular, NOTIFY_BAD <=> EPERM). */
static inline int notifier_from_errno(int err)
{
return NOTIFY_STOP_MASK | (NOTIFY_OK - err);
}
/* Restore (negative) errno value from notify return value. */
static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
{
ret &= ~NOTIFY_STOP_MASK;
return ret > NOTIFY_OK ? NOTIFY_OK - ret : 0;
}
/*
* Declared notifiers so far. I can imagine quite a few more chains
* over time (eg laptop power reset chains, reboot chain (to clean