macvlan: resolve ENOENT errors on creation
After the commit below attempting to create macvlan devices was resulting in ENOENT errors, # ip link add link p3p2 type macvlan RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument This happens because netdev_upper_dev_link() is called before register_netdevice() in the macvlan code. Through a call chain this results in a call to __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert() and finally a sysfs_create_link(). This requires the kobject of the macvlan to be registered which is done in register_netdevice(). If there is no kobject which is the case here the ENOENT error is seen on the command line. To resolve this move the netdev_upper_dev_link() call below the register_netdevice() call. This aligns with vlan driver flow. Regression introduced here, commit 5831d66e Author: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Date: Wed Sep 25 09:20:32 2013 +0200 net: create sysfs symlinks for neighbour devices CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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