bridge: Assign rtnl_link_ops to bridge devices created via ioctl (v2)

This ensures that bridges created with brctl(8) or ioctl(2) directly
also carry IFLA_LINKINFO when dumped over netlink. This also allows
to create a bridge with ioctl(2) and delete it with RTM_DELLINK.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 0a942fbccc9a..e1144e1617be 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ int br_add_bridge(struct net *net, const char *name)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
         dev_net_set(dev, net);
+        dev->rtnl_link_ops = &br_link_ops;
 
         res = register_netdev(dev);
         if (res)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 2080485515f1..fe41260fbf38 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int br_validate(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nlattr *data[])
         return 0;
 }
 
-static struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = {
+struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops __read_mostly = {
         .kind           = "bridge",
         .priv_size      = sizeof(struct net_bridge),
         .setup          = br_dev_setup,
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h
index 1a8ad4fb9a6b..a768b2408edf 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ extern int (*br_fdb_test_addr_hook)(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char *addr)
 #endif
 
 /* br_netlink.c */
+extern struct rtnl_link_ops br_link_ops;
 extern int br_netlink_init(void);
 extern void br_netlink_fini(void);
 extern void br_ifinfo_notify(int event, struct net_bridge_port *port);