From: Travis Brown <travisb@arista.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:35:01 +0000
Subject: macvlan: Change status when lower device goes down
Patch-mainline: v4.19-rc1
Git-commit: 80fd2d6ca5461b2752744df2e6e387cc65e7b86c
References: bsc#1109837
Today macvlan ignores the notification when a lower device goes
administratively down, preventing the lack of connectivity from
bubbling up.
Processing NETDEV_DOWN results in a macvlan state of LOWERLAYERDOWN
with NO-CARRIER which should be easy to interpret in userspace.
2: lower: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
3: macvlan@lower: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state LOWERLAYERDOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
Signed-off-by: Suresh Krishnan <skrishnan@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Travis Brown <travisb@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -1641,6 +1641,7 @@ static int macvlan_device_event(struct n
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_UP:
+ case NETDEV_DOWN:
case NETDEV_CHANGE:
list_for_each_entry(vlan, &port->vlans, list)
netif_stacked_transfer_operstate(vlan->lowerdev,