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| author | Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> | 2022-02-27 23:40:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> | 2022-03-02 09:00:17 +0100 |
| commit | 6ee3c393eeb7d16a3c228c4fa23913b76c7e7df3 (patch) | |
| tree | f849c58ed32d003654bcdf1c4011030ec6bfad90 /net/batman-adv | |
| parent | eb7da4f17dfcee649767f89e17842f664a459549 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ee3c393eeb7d16a3c228c4fa23913b76c7e7df3.tar.bz2 | |
batman-adv: Demote batadv-on-batadv skip error message
The error message "Cannot find parent device" was shown for users of
macvtap (on batadv devices) whenever the macvtap was moved to a different
netns. This happens because macvtap doesn't provide an implementation for
rtnl_link_ops->get_link_net.
The situation for which this message is printed is actually not an error
but just a warning that the optional sanity check was skipped. So demote
the message from error to warning and adjust the text to better explain
what happened.
Reported-by: Leonardo Mörlein <freifunk@irrelefant.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index 59d19097a54c..b25afc7ff59c 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(const struct net_device *net_dev) /* recurse over the parent device */ parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index((struct net *)parent_net, dev_get_iflink(net_dev)); - /* if we got a NULL parent_dev there is something broken.. */ if (!parent_dev) { - pr_err("Cannot find parent device\n"); + pr_warn("Cannot find parent device. Skipping batadv-on-batadv check for %s\n", + net_dev->name); return false; } |