[libvirt] [PATCH] macvtap: cannot support target device name

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri May 28 17:02:28 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 10:37 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 10:30 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > Since the macvtap device needs active tear-down and the teardown logic
> > is based on the interface name, it can happen that if for example 1 out
> > of 3 interfaces was successfully created, that during the failure path
> > the macvtap's target device name is used to tear down an interface that
> > is doesn't own (owned by another VM).
> > 
> > So, in this patch, the target interface name is reset so that there is
> > no target interface name and the interface name is always cleared after
> > a tear down.
> 
> ACK.

Thanks. Pushed.

   Stefan






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