When the peer link is created, its "iflink" information is not advertised through netlink. If a user is maintaining a cache from all updates, it will miss this information:
2: veth0@NONE: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ae:0e:08:af:fb:a0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: veth1@veth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether 3a:31:f1:36:2e:e5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff To avoid this situation, the peer link is only configured after both interfaces are tied together: 3: veth0@veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ee:0d:80:46:36:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: veth1@veth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether ba:25:bc:7a:0d:c8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vinc...@bernat.im> --- drivers/net/veth.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c index f37a6e61d4ad..7580f6765948 100644 --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -432,10 +432,6 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, netif_carrier_off(peer); - err = rtnl_configure_link(peer, ifmp); - if (err < 0) - goto err_configure_peer; - /* * register dev last * @@ -466,8 +462,17 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, priv = netdev_priv(peer); rcu_assign_pointer(priv->peer, dev); + + err = rtnl_configure_link(peer, ifmp); + if (err < 0) + goto err_configure_link; return 0; +err_configure_link: + RCU_INIT_POINTER(priv->peer, NULL); + priv = netdev_priv(dev); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(priv->peer, NULL); + unregister_netdevice(dev); err_register_dev: /* nothing to do */ err_configure_peer: -- 2.8.1