LAG devices (team or bond) recognize for each one of their slave devices
whether LAG traffic is going to be sent through that device. Bond calls
such devices "active", team calls them "txable". When this state
changes, a NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE notification is distributed, together
with a netdev_notifier_changelowerstate_info structure that for LAG
devices includes a tx_enabled flag that refers to the new state. The
notification thus makes it possible to react to the changes in txability
in drivers.
However there's no way to query txability from the outside on demand.
That is problematic namely for mlxsw, which when resolving ERSPAN packet
path, may encounter a LAG device, and needs to determine which of the
slaves it should choose.
To that end, introduce a new function, net_lag_port_dev_txable(), which
determines whether a given slave device is "active" or
"txable" (depending on the flavor of the LAG device). That function then
dispatches to per-LAG-flavor helpers, bond_is_active_slave_dev() resp.
team_port_dev_txable().
Because there currently is no good place where net_lag_port_dev_txable()
should be added, introduce a new header file, lag.h, which should from
now on hold any logic common to both team and bond. (But keep
netif_is_lag_master() together with the rest of netif_is_*_master()
functions).
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The rx load balancing provided by balance-alb is not mutually
exclusive with using hashing for tx selection, and should provide a decent
speed increase because this eliminates spinlocks and cache contention.
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There was a regression at some point from the intended functionality of
commit f60c3704e8 ("bonding: Fix alb mode to only use first level
vlans.")
Given the return value vlan_get_encap_level() we need to store the nest
level of the bond device, and then compare the vlan's encap level to
this. Without this, this check always fails and learning packets are
never sent.
In addition, this same commit caused a regression in the behavior of
balance_alb, which requires learning packets be sent for all interfaces
using the slave's mac in order to load balance properly. For vlan's
that have not set a user mac, we can send after checking one bit.
Otherwise we need send the set mac, albeit defeating rx load balancing
for that vlan.
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the patch 'rtnetlink: bring NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE event
process back to rtnetlink_event', bond_lower_state_changed would
generate NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER event which would send a notification
to userspace in rtnetlink_event.
There's no need to call rtmsg_ifinfo to send the notification
any more. So this patch is to remove it from these places after
bond_lower_state_changed.
Besides, after this, rtmsg_ifinfo is not needed to be exported.
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pass extack to do_set_master and down to ndo_add_slave
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The patch c4adfc822b ("bonding: make speed, duplex setting consistent
with link state") puts the link state to down if
bond_update_speed_duplex() cannot retrieve speed and duplex settings.
Assumably the patch was written with 802.3ad mode in mind which relies
on link speed/duplex settings. For other modes like active-backup these
settings are not required. Thus, only for these other modes, this patch
reintroduces support for slaves that do not support reporting speed or
duplex such as wireless devices. This fixes the regression reported in
bug 196547 (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196547).
Fixes: c4adfc822b ("bonding: make speed, duplex setting consistent
with link state")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Earlier patch 4493b81bea ("bonding: initialize work-queues during
creation of bond") moved the work-queue initialization from bond_open()
to bond_create(). However this caused the link those are created using
netlink 'create bond option' (ip link add bondX type bond); create the
new trunk without initializing work-queues. Prior to the above mentioned
change, ndo_open was in both paths and things worked correctly. The
consequence is visible in the report shared by Joe Stringer -
I've noticed that this patch breaks bonding within namespaces if
you're not careful to perform device cleanup correctly.
Here's my repro script, you can run on any net-next with this patch
and you'll start seeing some weird behaviour:
ip netns add foo
ip li add veth0 type veth peer name veth0+ netns foo
ip li add veth1 type veth peer name veth1+ netns foo
ip netns exec foo ip li add bond0 type bond
ip netns exec foo ip li set dev veth0+ master bond0
ip netns exec foo ip li set dev veth1+ master bond0
ip netns exec foo ip addr add dev bond0 192.168.0.1/24
ip netns exec foo ip li set dev bond0 up
ip li del dev veth0
ip li del dev veth1
The second to last command segfaults, last command hangs. rtnl is now
permanently locked. It's not a problem if you take bond0 down before
deleting veths, or delete bond0 before deleting veths. If you delete
either end of the veth pair as per above, either inside or outside the
namespace, it hits this problem.
Here's some kernel logs:
[ 1221.801610] bond0: Enslaving veth0+ as an active interface with an up link
[ 1224.449581] bond0: Enslaving veth1+ as an active interface with an up link
[ 1281.193863] bond0: Releasing backup interface veth0+
[ 1281.193866] bond0: the permanent HWaddr of veth0+ -
16:bf:fb:e0:b8:43 - is still in use by bond0 - set the HWaddr of
veth0+ to a different address to avoid conflicts
[ 1281.193867] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1281.193873] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2024 at kernel/workqueue.c:1511
__queue_delayed_work+0x13f/0x150
[ 1281.193873] Modules linked in: bonding veth openvswitch nf_nat_ipv6
nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat autofs4 nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl binfmt_misc nfs
lockd grace sunrpc fscache ppdev vmw_balloon coretemp psmouse
serio_raw vmwgfx ttm drm_kms_helper vmw_vmci netconsole parport_pc
configfs drm i2c_piix4 fb_sys_fops syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt
shpchp mac_hid nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_conntrack libcrc32c lp parport hid_generic usbhid
hid mptspi mptscsih e1000 mptbase ahci libahci
[ 1281.193905] CPU: 0 PID: 2024 Comm: ip Tainted: G W
4.10.0-bisect-bond-v0.14 #37
[ 1281.193906] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual
Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 09/30/2014
[ 1281.193906] Call Trace:
[ 1281.193912] dump_stack+0x63/0x89
[ 1281.193915] __warn+0xd1/0xf0
[ 1281.193917] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[ 1281.193918] __queue_delayed_work+0x13f/0x150
[ 1281.193920] queue_delayed_work_on+0x27/0x40
[ 1281.193929] bond_change_active_slave+0x25b/0x670 [bonding]
[ 1281.193932] ? synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x27/0x30
[ 1281.193935] __bond_release_one+0x489/0x510 [bonding]
[ 1281.193939] ? addrconf_notify+0x1b7/0xab0
[ 1281.193942] bond_netdev_event+0x2c5/0x2e0 [bonding]
[ 1281.193944] ? netconsole_netdev_event+0x124/0x190 [netconsole]
[ 1281.193947] notifier_call_chain+0x49/0x70
[ 1281.193948] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
[ 1281.193950] call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x35/0x60
[ 1281.193951] rollback_registered_many+0x23b/0x3e0
[ 1281.193953] unregister_netdevice_many+0x24/0xd0
[ 1281.193955] rtnl_delete_link+0x3c/0x50
[ 1281.193956] rtnl_dellink+0x8d/0x1b0
[ 1281.193960] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95/0x220
[ 1281.193962] ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x35/0x280
[ 1281.193964] ? __netlink_lookup+0xf1/0x110
[ 1281.193966] ? rtnl_newlink+0x830/0x830
[ 1281.193967] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa7/0xc0
[ 1281.193969] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x30
[ 1281.193970] netlink_unicast+0x15b/0x210
[ 1281.193971] netlink_sendmsg+0x319/0x390
[ 1281.193974] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50
[ 1281.193975] ___sys_sendmsg+0x25c/0x270
[ 1281.193978] ? mem_cgroup_commit_charge+0x76/0xf0
[ 1281.193981] ? page_add_new_anon_rmap+0x89/0xc0
[ 1281.193984] ? lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable+0x35/0xb0
[ 1281.193985] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x4e9/0x1170
[ 1281.193987] __sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x80
[ 1281.193989] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20
[ 1281.193991] do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x180
[ 1281.193993] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
[ 1281.193995] RIP: 0033:0x7f6ec122f5a0
[ 1281.193995] RSP: 002b:00007ffe69e89c48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:
000000000000002e
[ 1281.193997] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe69e8dd60 RCX: 00007f6ec122f5a0
[ 1281.193997] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffe69e89c90 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 1281.193998] RBP: 00007ffe69e89c90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000003
[ 1281.193999] R10: 00007ffe69e89a10 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000058f14b9f
[ 1281.193999] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000006473a0 R15: 00007ffe69e8e450
[ 1281.194001] ---[ end trace 713a77486cbfbfa3 ]---
Fixes: 4493b81bea ("bonding: initialize work-queues during creation of bond")
Reported-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Tested-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
People are using bonding over Infiniband IPoIB connections, and who knows
what else. Infiniband has a hardware address length of 20 octets
(INFINIBAND_ALEN), and the network core defines a MAX_ADDR_LEN of 32.
Various places in the bonding code are currently hard-wired to 6 octets
(ETH_ALEN), such as the 3ad code, which I've left untouched here. Besides,
only alb is currently possible on Infiniband links right now anyway, due
to commit 1533e77315, so the alb code is where most of the changes are.
One major component of this change is the addition of a bond_hw_addr_copy
function that takes a length argument, instead of using ether_addr_copy
everywhere that hardware addresses need to be copied about. The other
major component of this change is converting the bonding code from using
struct sockaddr for address storage to struct sockaddr_storage, as the
former has an address storage space of only 14, while the latter is 128
minus a few, which is necessary to support bonding over device with up to
MAX_ADDR_LEN octet hardware addresses. Additionally, this probably fixes
up some memory corruption issues with the current code, where it's
possible to write an infiniband hardware address into a sockaddr declared
on the stack.
Lightly tested on a dual mlx4 IPoIB setup, which properly shows a 20-octet
hardware address now:
$ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) (fail_over_mac active)
Primary Slave: mlx4_ib0 (primary_reselect always)
Currently Active Slave: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 100
Down Delay (ms): 100
Slave Interface: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:08:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:01
Slave queue ID: 0
Slave Interface: mlx4_ib1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:09:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:01:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:02
Slave queue ID: 0
Also tested with a standard 1Gbps NIC bonding setup (with a mix of
e1000 and e1000e cards), running LNST's bonding tests.
CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Split the function into two (a) propose (b) commit phase without
changing the semantics for the original API.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned.
There are 2 reasons to do so:
1)
This field is really an index into an zero based array and
thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound
access by definition.
2)
On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers
via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers
are preffered to signed 32-bit data.
"int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended
to 64-bit before being used.
void f(long *p, int i)
{
g(p[i]);
}
roughly translates to
movsx rsi, esi
mov rdi, [rsi+...]
call g
MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is
unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default.
Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses
"int" as an array index:
static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id)
{
...
ptr = ng->ptr[id - 1];
...
}
And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up.
Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk
messing with code generation):
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger.
This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register
allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable
needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX
prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be
used which is longer than [r8]
However, overall balance is in negative direction:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
function old new delta
nfsd4_lock 3886 3959 +73
tipc_link_build_proto_msg 1096 1140 +44
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio 2776 2808 +32
tipc_mon_rcv 1032 1058 +26
svcauth_gss_legacy_init 1413 1429 +16
tipc_bcbase_select_primary 379 392 +13
nfsd4_exchange_id 1247 1260 +13
nfsd4_setclientid_confirm 782 793 +11
...
put_client_renew_locked 494 480 -14
ip_set_sockfn_get 730 716 -14
geneve_sock_add 829 813 -16
nfsd4_sequence_done 721 703 -18
nlmclnt_lookup_host 708 686 -22
nfsd4_lockt 1085 1063 -22
nfs_get_client 1077 1050 -27
tcf_bpf_init 1106 1076 -30
nfsd4_encode_fattr 5997 5930 -67
Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00%
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The only remaining users are issuing SIOCGMIIPHY and SIOCGMIIREG,
neither of which deals with userland pointers. Simply calling
->ndo_do_ioctl() is fine; no messing with set_fs() is needed.
It used to mess with SIOCETHTOOL, which would've needed set_fs(),
but that has been killed in "[NET] ethtool ops are the only way"
9 years ago...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
ether_addr_equal_64bits() requires some care about its arguments,
namely that 8 bytes might be read, even if last 2 byte values are not
used.
KASan detected a violation with null_mac_addr and lacpdu_mcast_addr
in bond_3ad.c
Same problem with mac_bcast[] and mac_v6_allmcast[] in bond_alb.c :
Although the 8-byte alignment was there, KASan would detect out
of bound accesses.
Fixes: 815117adaf ("bonding: use ether_addr_equal_unaligned for bond addr compare")
Fixes: bb54e58929 ("bonding: Verify RX LACPDU has proper dest mac-addr")
Fixes: 885a136c52 ("bonding: use compare_ether_addr_64bits() in ALB")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bond_get_stats() can be called from rtnetlink (with RTNL held)
or from /proc/net/dev seq handler (with RCU held)
The logic added in commit 5f0c5f73e5 ("bonding: make global bonding
stats more reliable") kind of assumed only one cpu could run there.
If multiple threads are reading /proc/net/dev, stats can be really
messed up after a while.
A second problem is that some fields are 32bit, so we need to properly
handle the wrap around problem.
Given that RTNL is not always held, we need to use
bond_for_each_slave_rcu().
Fixes: 5f0c5f73e5 ("bonding: make global bonding stats more reliable")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Let netdev notifier listeners know about link and slave state change.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar to state notifications.
We allow caller to indicate if the notification should happen now or later,
depending on if he holds rtnl mutex or not. Introduce bond_slave_link_notify
function (similar to bond_slave_state_notify) which is later on called
with rtnl mutex and goes over slaves and executes delayed notification.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some consumers of the netdev events API would like to know who is the
active slave when a NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER or NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER
events occur. For example, when managing RoCE GIDs, GIDs based on the
bond's ips should only be set on the port which corresponds to active
slave netdevice.
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
The port key has three components - user-key, speed-part, and duplex-part.
The LSBit is for the duplex-part, next 5 bits are for the speed while the
remaining 10 bits are the user defined key bits. Get these 10 bits
from the user-space (through the SysFs interface) and use it to form the
admin port-key. Allowed range for the user-key is 0 - 1023 (10 bits). If
it is not provided then use zero for the user-key-bits (default).
It can set using following example code -
# modprobe bonding mode=4
# usr_port_key=$(( RANDOM & 0x3FF ))
# echo $usr_port_key > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_user_port_key
# echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves
...
# ip link set bond0 up
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
[jt: * fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch
* fixed up context from change in ad_actor_sys_prio patch]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In an AD system, the communication between actor and partner is the
business between these two entities. In the current setup anyone on the
same L2 can "guess" the LACPDU contents and then possibly send the
spoofed LACPDUs and trick the partner causing connectivity issues for
the AD system. This patch allows to use a random mac-address obscuring
it's identity making it harder for someone in the L2 is do the same thing.
This patch allows user-space to choose the mac-address for the AD-system.
This mac-address can not be NULL or a Multicast. If the mac-address is set
from user-space; kernel will honor it and will not overwrite it. In the
absence (value from user space); the logic will default to using the
masters' mac as the mac-address for the AD-system.
It can be set using example code below -
# modprobe bonding mode=4
# sys_mac_addr=$(printf '%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x' \
$(( (RANDOM & 0xFE) | 0x02 )) \
$(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \
$(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \
$(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \
$(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \
$(( RANDOM & 0xFF )))
# echo $sys_mac_addr > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_actor_system
# echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves
...
# ip link set bond0 up
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
[jt: fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch allows user to randomize the system-priority in an ad-system.
The allowed range is 1 - 0xFFFF while default value is 0xFFFF. If user
does not specify this value, the system defaults to 0xFFFF, which is
what it was before this patch.
Following example code could set the value -
# modprobe bonding mode=4
# sys_prio=$(( 1 + RANDOM + RANDOM ))
# echo $sys_prio > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_actor_sys_prio
# echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves
...
# ip link set bond0 up
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
[jt: * fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch
* changed how the default value is set in bond_check_params(), this
makes the default consistent between what gets set for a new bond
and what the default is claimed to be in the bonding options.]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The bonding modules currently defines four macros with
general names that pollute the global namespace:
DRV_VERSION
DRV_RELDATE
DRV_NAME
DRV_DESCRIPTION
Fixing that by defining a private bonding_priv.h
header files which includes those defines.
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When queuing work to send the NETDEV_BONDING_INFO netdev event, it's
possible that when the work is executed, the pointer to the slave
becomes invalid. This can happen if between queuing the event and the
execution of the work, the net-device was un-ensvaled and re-enslaved.
Fix that by queuing a work with the data of the slave instead of the
slave structure.
Fixes: 69e6113343 ('net/bonding: Notify state change on slaves')
Reported-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use notifier chain to dispatch an event upon a change in slave state.
Event is dispatched with slave specific info.
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move slave state changes to a helper function, this is a pre-step for adding
functionality of dispatching an event when this helper is called.
This commit doesn't add new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This ways drivers like cxgb4 don't need to do ugly relative includes.
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
