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[PATCH net-stable 24/24] hv_netvsc: set master device

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2018-05-14 22:33:05
Subsystem: hyper-v/azure core and drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: "K. Y. Srinivasan", Haiyang Zhang, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui, Long Li, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

commit 97f3efb64323beb0690576e9d74e94998ad6e82a upstream

The hyper-v transparent bonding should have used master_dev_link.
The netvsc device should look like a master bond device not
like the upper side of a tunnel.

This makes the semantics the same so that userspace applications
looking at network devices see the correct master relationshipship.

Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index be4b15b63355..11b46c8d2d67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -1778,7 +1778,8 @@ static int netvsc_vf_join(struct net_device *vf_netdev,
 		goto rx_handler_failed;
 	}
 
-	ret = netdev_upper_dev_link(vf_netdev, ndev);
+	ret = netdev_master_upper_dev_link(vf_netdev, ndev,
+					   NULL, NULL);
 	if (ret != 0) {
 		netdev_err(vf_netdev,
 			   "can not set master device %s (err = %d)\n",
-- 
2.17.0
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