rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually

In order to support specifying device flags during device creation,
we must be able to roll back device registration in case setting the
flags fails without sending any notifications related to the device
to userspace.

This patch changes rollback_registered_many() and register_netdevice()
to manually send netlink notifications for devices not handled by
rtnl_link and allows to defer notifications for devices handled by
rtnl_link until setup is complete.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index eb7f1a4fefc6..75332b089529 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4865,6 +4865,10 @@ static void rollback_registered_many(struct list_head *head)
                 */
                 call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
 
+                if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops ||
+                    dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
+                        rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U);
+
                 /*
                  *      Flush the unicast and multicast chains
                  */
@@ -5091,7 +5095,9 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
          *      Prevent userspace races by waiting until the network
          *      device is fully setup before sending notifications.
          */
-        rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, ~0U);
+        if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops ||
+            dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
+                rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, ~0U);
 
 out:
         return ret;
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index b7c7dfd86507..020e43bfef5f 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1425,9 +1425,6 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi
         struct net_device *dev = ptr;
 
         switch (event) {
-        case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
-                rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U);
-                break;
         case NETDEV_UP:
         case NETDEV_DOWN:
                 rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING);
@@ -1437,6 +1434,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi
         case NETDEV_REGISTER:
         case NETDEV_CHANGE:
         case NETDEV_GOING_DOWN:
+        case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
         case NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH:
                 break;
         default: