Subject: [PATCH] Module for ip utility to support veth device

From: Pavel Emelianov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:17:19 +0400

The usage is
# ip link add [name] type veth [peer <name>] [mac <mac>] [peer_mac <mac>]

The Makefile is maybe not as beautiful as it could be. It
is to be discussed.

One thing I noticed during testing is the following. When launching
this with link_veth.so module and not specifying any module specific
parameters, the kernel refuses to accept the packet when parsing the
IFLA_LINKINFO. So the hunk for ip/iplink.c doesn't add an empty extra 
header if no extra data expected.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[email-masked]>

---

diff --git a/ip/Makefile b/ip/Makefile
index 9a5bfe3..b46bce3 100644
--- a/ip/Makefile
+++ b/ip/Makefile
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ RTMONOBJ=rtmon.o
 ALLOBJ=$(IPOBJ) $(RTMONOBJ)
 SCRIPTS=ifcfg rtpr routel routef
 TARGETS=ip rtmon
+LIBS=link_veth.so
 
-all: $(TARGETS) $(SCRIPTS)
+all: $(TARGETS) $(SCRIPTS) $(LIBS)
 
 ip: $(IPOBJ) $(LIBNETLINK) $(LIBUTIL)
 
@@ -24,3 +25,6 @@ clean:
 
 LDLIBS	+= -ldl
 LDFLAGS	+= -Wl,-export-dynamic
+
+%.so: %.c
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared $< -o $@
diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 5170419..6975990 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static int iplink_modify(int cmd, unsign
 			 strlen(type));
 
 		lu = get_link_type(type);
-		if (lu) {
+		if (lu && argc) {
 			struct rtattr * data = NLMSG_TAIL(&req.n);
 			addattr_l(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFLA_INFO_DATA, NULL, 0);
 
diff --git a/ip/link_veth.c b/ip/link_veth.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..adfdef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ip/link_veth.c
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+#include "ip_common.h"
+#include "veth.h"
+
+#define ETH_ALEN	6
+
+static void usage(void)
+{
+	printf("Usage: ip link add ... "
+			"[peer <peer-name>] [mac <mac>] [peer_mac <mac>]\n");
+}
+
+static int veth_parse_opt(struct link_util *lu, int argc, char **argv,
+		struct nlmsghdr *hdr)
+{
+	__u8 mac[ETH_ALEN];
+
+	for (; argc != 0; argv++, argc--) {
+		if (strcmp(*argv, "peer") == 0) {
+			argv++;
+			argc--;
+			if (argc == 0) {
+				usage();
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			addattr_l(hdr, 1024, VETH_INFO_PEER,
+					*argv, strlen(*argv));
+
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (strcmp(*argv, "mac") == 0) {
+			argv++;
+			argc--;
+			if (argc == 0) {
+				usage();
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			if (hexstring_a2n(*argv, mac, sizeof(mac)) == NULL)
+				return -1;
+
+			addattr_l(hdr, 1024, VETH_INFO_MAC,
+					mac, ETH_ALEN);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (strcmp(*argv, "peer_mac") == 0) {
+			argv++;
+			argc--;
+			if (argc == 0) {
+				usage();
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			if (hexstring_a2n(*argv, mac, sizeof(mac)) == NULL)
+				return -1;
+
+			addattr_l(hdr, 1024, VETH_INFO_PEER_MAC,
+					mac, ETH_ALEN);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		usage();
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+struct link_util veth_link_util = {
+	.id = "veth",
+	.parse_opt = veth_parse_opt,
+};
diff --git a/ip/veth.h b/ip/veth.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74c8e1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ip/veth.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#ifndef __NET_VETH_H__
+#define __NET_VETH_H__
+
+enum {
+	VETH_INFO_UNSPEC,
+	VETH_INFO_MAC,
+	VETH_INFO_PEER,
+	VETH_INFO_PEER_MAC,
+
+	VETH_INFO_MAX
+};
+
+#endif