net: add possibility to pass information about upper device via notifier

Sometimes the drivers and other code would find it handy to know some
internal information about upper device being changed. So allow upper-code
to pass information down to notifier listeners during linking.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index a7f4f1085dbb..aa8867e1d983 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ int batadv_hardif_enable_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface,
 	bat_priv = netdev_priv(hard_iface->soft_iface);
 
 	ret = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(hard_iface->net_dev,
-					   soft_iface, NULL);
+					   soft_iface, NULL, NULL);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_dev;
 
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 781abc34667a..8d1d4a22c50d 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
 
 	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_BRIDGE_PORT;
 
-	err = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(dev, br->dev, NULL);
+	err = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(dev, br->dev, NULL, NULL);
 	if (err)
 		goto err5;
 
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 27d052bb78bc..8ed886663c6d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5421,7 +5421,7 @@ static void __netdev_adjacent_dev_unlink_neighbour(struct net_device *dev,
 
 static int __netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev,
 				   struct net_device *upper_dev, bool master,
-				   void *upper_priv)
+				   void *upper_priv, void *upper_info)
 {
 	struct netdev_notifier_changeupper_info changeupper_info;
 	struct netdev_adjacent *i, *j, *to_i, *to_j;
@@ -5445,6 +5445,7 @@ static int __netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev,
 	changeupper_info.upper_dev = upper_dev;
 	changeupper_info.master = master;
 	changeupper_info.linking = true;
+	changeupper_info.upper_info = upper_info;
 
 	ret = call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER, dev,
 					    &changeupper_info.info);
@@ -5549,7 +5550,7 @@ rollback_mesh:
 int netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev,
 			  struct net_device *upper_dev)
 {
-	return __netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper_dev, false, NULL);
+	return __netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper_dev, false, NULL, NULL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_upper_dev_link);
 
@@ -5558,6 +5559,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_upper_dev_link);
  * @dev: device
  * @upper_dev: new upper device
  * @upper_priv: upper device private
+ * @upper_info: upper info to be passed down via notifier
  *
  * Adds a link to device which is upper to this one. In this case, only
  * one master upper device can be linked, although other non-master devices
@@ -5567,9 +5569,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_upper_dev_link);
  */
 int netdev_master_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev,
 				 struct net_device *upper_dev,
-				 void *upper_priv)
+				 void *upper_priv, void *upper_info)
 {
-	return __netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper_dev, true, upper_priv);
+	return __netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper_dev, true,
+				       upper_priv, upper_info);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_master_upper_dev_link);
 
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
index 3ee3df1edeae..8f4dd4c39bfe 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct vport *ovs_netdev_link(struct vport *vport, const char *name)
 
 	rtnl_lock();
 	err = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(vport->dev,
-					   get_dpdev(vport->dp), NULL);
+					   get_dpdev(vport->dp), NULL, NULL);
 	if (err)
 		goto error_unlock;