rtnl: expose carrier value with possibility to set it

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 1868625af25e..2ef7a56ba117 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ static noinline size_t if_nlmsg_size(const struct net_device *dev,
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MTU */
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_LINK */
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_MASTER */
+               + nla_total_size(1) /* IFLA_CARRIER */
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_PROMISCUITY */
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_NUM_TX_QUEUES */
                + nla_total_size(4) /* IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES */
@@ -909,6 +910,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
              nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_LINK, dev->iflink)) ||
             (dev->master &&
              nla_put_u32(skb, IFLA_MASTER, dev->master->ifindex)) ||
+            nla_put_u8(skb, IFLA_CARRIER, netif_carrier_ok(dev)) ||
             (dev->qdisc &&
              nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_QDISC, dev->qdisc->ops->id)) ||
             (dev->ifalias &&
@@ -1108,6 +1110,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
         [IFLA_MTU]              = { .type = NLA_U32 },
         [IFLA_LINK]             = { .type = NLA_U32 },
         [IFLA_MASTER]           = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+        [IFLA_CARRIER]          = { .type = NLA_U8 },
         [IFLA_TXQLEN]           = { .type = NLA_U32 },
         [IFLA_WEIGHT]           = { .type = NLA_U32 },
         [IFLA_OPERSTATE]        = { .type = NLA_U8 },
@@ -1438,6 +1441,13 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
                 modified = 1;
         }
 
+        if (tb[IFLA_CARRIER]) {
+                err = dev_change_carrier(dev, nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_CARRIER]));
+                if (err)
+                        goto errout;
+                modified = 1;
+        }
+
         if (tb[IFLA_TXQLEN])
                 dev->tx_queue_len = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_TXQLEN]);