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Allow a network interface to be renamed when the interface is up. As described in the netconsole documentation [1], when netconsole is used as a built-in, it will bring up the specified interface as soon as possible. As a result, user space will not be able to rename the interface since the kernel disallows renaming of interfaces that are administratively up unless the 'IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK' private flag was set by the kernel. The original solution [2] to this problem was to add a new parameter to the netconsole configuration parameters that allows renaming of the interface used by netconsole while it is administratively up. However, during the discussion that followed, it became apparent that we have no reason to keep the current restriction and instead we should allow user space to rename interfaces regardless of their administrative state: 1. The restriction was put in place over 20 years ago when renaming was only possible via IOCTL and before rtnetlink started notifying user space about such changes like it does today. 2. The 'IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK' flag was added over 3 years ago in version 5.2 and no regressions were reported. 3. In-kernel listeners to 'NETDEV_CHANGENAME' do not seem to care about the administrative state of interface. Therefore, allow user space to rename running interfaces by removing the restriction and the associated 'IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK' flag. Help in possible triage by emitting a message to the kernel log that an interface was renamed while UP. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221102002420.2613004-1-andy.ren@getcruise.com/ Signed-off-by: Andy Ren <andy.ren@getcruise.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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