net/core: Add event for a change in slave state

Add event which provides an indication on a change in the state
of a bonding slave. The event handler should cast the pointer to the
appropriate type (struct netdev_bonding_info) in order to get the
full info about the slave.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 1d564d68e31a..ede0b161b115 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5355,6 +5355,26 @@ void netdev_upper_dev_unlink(struct net_device *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_upper_dev_unlink);
 
+/**
+ * netdev_bonding_info_change - Dispatch event about slave change
+ * @dev: device
+ * @netdev_bonding_info: info to dispatch
+ *
+ * Send NETDEV_BONDING_INFO to netdev notifiers with info.
+ * The caller must hold the RTNL lock.
+ */
+void netdev_bonding_info_change(struct net_device *dev,
+                                struct netdev_bonding_info *bonding_info)
+{
+        struct netdev_notifier_bonding_info     info;
+
+        memcpy(&info.bonding_info, bonding_info,
+               sizeof(struct netdev_bonding_info));
+        call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_BONDING_INFO, dev,
+                                      &info.info);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_info_change);
+
 void netdev_adjacent_add_links(struct net_device *dev)
 {
         struct netdev_adjacent *iter;
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 673cb4c6f391..4cd5e350d129 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3180,6 +3180,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi
         case NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL:
         case NETDEV_RELEASE:
         case NETDEV_JOIN:
+        case NETDEV_BONDING_INFO:
                 break;
         default:
                 rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, 0, GFP_KERNEL);