linux/net/core
Si-Wei Liu 8065a779f1 failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces
When a netdev appears through hot plug then gets enslaved by a failover
master that is already up and running, the slave will be opened
right away after getting enslaved. Today there's a race that userspace
(udev) may fail to rename the slave if the kernel (net_failover)
opens the slave earlier than when the userspace rename happens.
Unlike bond or team, the primary slave of failover can't be renamed by
userspace ahead of time, since the kernel initiated auto-enslavement is
unable to, or rather, is never meant to be synchronized with the rename
request from userspace.

As the failover slave interfaces are not designed to be operated
directly by userspace apps: IP configuration, filter rules with
regard to network traffic passing and etc., should all be done on master
interface. In general, userspace apps only care about the
name of master interface, while slave names are less important as long
as admin users can see reliable names that may carry
other information describing the netdev. For e.g., they can infer that
"ens3nsby" is a standby slave of "ens3", while for a
name like "eth0" they can't tell which master it belongs to.

Historically the name of IFF_UP interface can't be changed because
there might be admin script or management software that is already
relying on such behavior and assumes that the slave name can't be
changed once UP. But failover is special: with the in-kernel
auto-enslavement mechanism, the userspace expectation for device
enumeration and bring-up order is already broken. Previously initramfs
and various userspace config tools were modified to bypass failover
slaves because of auto-enslavement and duplicate MAC address. Similarly,
in case that users care about seeing reliable slave name, the new type
of failover slaves needs to be taken care of specifically in userspace
anyway.

It's less risky to lift up the rename restriction on failover slave
which is already UP. Although it's possible this change may potentially
break userspace component (most likely configuration scripts or
management software) that assumes slave name can't be changed while
UP, it's relatively a limited and controllable set among all userspace
components, which can be fixed specifically to listen for the rename
events on failover slaves. Userspace component interacting with slaves
is expected to be changed to operate on failover master interface
instead, as the failover slave is dynamic in nature which may come and
go at any point.  The goal is to make the role of failover slaves less
relevant, and userspace components should only deal with failover master
in the long run.

Fixes: 30c8bd5aa8 ("net: Introduce generic failover module")
Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-10 22:12:26 -07:00
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Makefile flow_offload: add flow_rule and flow_match structures and use them 2019-02-06 10:38:25 -08:00
datagram.c net: datagram: fix unbounded loop in __skb_try_recv_datagram() 2019-03-27 21:58:53 -07:00
dev.c failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces 2019-04-10 22:12:26 -07:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: dev: Issue NETDEV_PRE_CHANGEADDR 2018-12-13 18:41:38 -08:00
dev_ioctl.c net: dev: Add extack argument to dev_set_mac_address() 2018-12-13 18:41:38 -08:00
devlink.c net: devlink: skip info_get op call if it is not defined in dumpit 2019-03-26 11:25:29 -07:00
drop_monitor.c treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
dst.c net: add a route cache full diagnostic message 2019-01-17 15:37:25 -08:00
dst_cache.c net: core: dst_cache_set_ip6: Rename 'addr' parameter to 'saddr' for consistency 2018-03-05 12:52:45 -05:00
ethtool.c net: ethtool: not call vzalloc for zero sized memory request 2019-03-29 13:41:55 -07:00
failover.c failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces 2019-04-10 22:12:26 -07:00
fib_notifier.c net: Fix fib notifer to return errno 2018-03-29 14:10:30 -04:00
fib_rules.c net/fib_rules: Update fib_nl_dumprule for strict data checking 2018-10-08 10:39:05 -07:00
filter.c flow_dissector: allow access only to a subset of __sk_buff fields 2019-04-03 16:49:48 +02:00
flow_dissector.c flow_dissector: fix clamping of BPF flow_keys for non-zero nhoff 2019-04-03 16:49:48 +02:00
flow_offload.c flow_offload: add flow action infrastructure 2019-02-06 10:38:25 -08:00
gen_estimator.c net: core: protect rate estimator statistics pointer with lock 2018-08-11 12:37:10 -07:00
gen_stats.c net: sched: put back q.qlen into a single location 2019-03-02 14:10:18 -08:00
gro_cells.c gro_cells: make sure device is up in gro_cells_receive() 2019-03-10 11:07:14 -07:00
hwbm.c net: hwbm: Fix unbalanced spinlock in error case 2016-05-25 12:35:09 -07:00
link_watch.c net: linkwatch: add check for netdevice being present to linkwatch_do_dev 2018-09-19 21:06:46 -07:00
lwt_bpf.c net: fix GSO in bpf_lwt_push_ip_encap 2019-03-07 10:41:29 +01:00
lwtunnel.c ip_tunnel: Add dst_cache support in lwtunnel_state of ip tunnel 2019-02-24 22:13:49 -08:00
neighbour.c neigh: hook tracepoints in neigh update code 2019-02-17 10:33:39 -08:00
net-procfs.c proc: introduce proc_create_net{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:24:30 +02:00
net-sysfs.c net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject 2019-03-21 13:38:27 -07:00
net-sysfs.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
net-traces.c trace: events: add a few neigh tracepoints 2019-02-17 10:33:39 -08:00
net_namespace.c netns: provide pure entropy for net_hash_mix() 2019-03-28 17:00:45 -07:00
netclassid_cgroup.c cgroup, netclassid: add a preemption point to write_classid 2018-10-23 12:58:17 -07:00
netevent.c
netpoll.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-12-27 13:04:52 -08:00
netprio_cgroup.c net: remove duplicate includes 2017-12-13 13:18:46 -05:00
page_pool.c page_pool: use DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC for DMA mappings 2019-02-13 22:00:16 -08:00
pktgen.c mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
ptp_classifier.c
request_sock.c ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_max_syn_backlog knob 2016-12-29 11:38:31 -05:00
rtnetlink.c net: Get rid of SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID 2019-02-06 14:17:03 -08:00
scm.c socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW 2019-02-03 11:17:31 -08:00
secure_seq.c infiniband: i40iw, nes: don't use wall time for TCP sequence numbers 2018-07-11 12:10:19 -06:00
skbuff.c net-gro: Fix GRO flush when receiving a GSO packet. 2019-04-03 21:40:52 -07:00
skmsg.c bpf: Stop the psock parser before canceling its work 2019-03-07 15:16:20 +01:00
sock.c net: support 64bit rates for getsockopt(SO_MAX_PACING_RATE) 2019-03-01 23:08:30 -08:00
sock_diag.c net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd() 2018-08-14 10:01:24 -07:00
sock_map.c bpf: skmsg, fix psock create on existing kcm/tls port 2018-10-20 00:40:45 +02:00
sock_reuseport.c sctp: add sock_reuseport for the sock in __sctp_hash_endpoint 2018-11-12 09:09:51 -08:00
stream.c tcp: reduce POLLOUT events caused by TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT 2018-12-04 21:21:18 -08:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: introduce a knob to control whether to inherit devconf config 2019-01-22 11:07:21 -08:00
timestamping.c
tso.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
utils.c net: Remove some unneeded semicolon 2018-08-04 13:05:39 -07:00
xdp.c xdp: remove redundant variable 'headroom' 2018-09-01 01:35:53 +02:00