Driver core: notify userspace of network device renames

Provide rename event for when we rename network devices.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 

lib/kobject.c

@@ -311,13 +311,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_set_name);
 int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name)
 {
 	int error = 0;
+	const char *devpath = NULL;
+	char *devpath_string = NULL;
+	char *envp[2];
 
 	kobj = kobject_get(kobj);
 	if (!kobj)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!kobj->parent)
 		return -EINVAL;
+
+	devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!devpath) {
+		error = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	devpath_string = kmalloc(strlen(devpath) + 15, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!devpath_string) {
+		error = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	sprintf(devpath_string, "DEVPATH_OLD=%s", devpath);
+	envp[0] = devpath_string;
+	envp[1] = NULL;
+	/* Note : if we want to send the new name alone, not the full path,
+	 * we could probably use kobject_name(kobj); */
+
 	error = sysfs_rename_dir(kobj, kobj->parent->dentry, new_name);
+
+	/* This function is mostly/only used for network interface.
+	 * Some hotplug package track interfaces by their name and
+	 * therefore want to know when the name is changed by the user. */
+	if (!error)
+		kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp);
+
+out:
+	kfree(devpath_string);
+	kfree(devpath);
 	kobject_put(kobj);
 
 	return error;

net/core/net-sysfs.c

@@ -421,6 +421,17 @@ static int netdev_uevent(struct device *d, char **envp,
 	buf += n;
 	size -= n;
 
+	if ((size <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	/* pass ifindex to uevent.
+	 * ifindex is useful as it won't change (interface name may change)
+	 * and is what RtNetlink uses natively. */
+	envp[i++] = buf;
+	n = snprintf(buf, size, "IFINDEX=%d", dev->ifindex) + 1;
+	buf += n;
+	size -= n;
+
 	if ((size <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
 		return -ENOMEM;