The error message "Cannot find parent device" was shown for users of
macvtap (on batadv devices) whenever the macvtap was moved to a different
netns. This happens because macvtap doesn't provide an implementation for
rtnl_link_ops->get_link_net.
The situation for which this message is printed is actually not an error
but just a warning that the optional sanity check was skipped. So demote
the message from error to warning and adjust the text to better explain
what happened.
Reported-by: Leonardo Mörlein <freifunk@irrelefant.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
/* recurse over the parent device */
parent_dev = __dev_get_by_index((struct net *)parent_net,
dev_get_iflink(net_dev));
- /* if we got a NULL parent_dev there is something broken.. */
if (!parent_dev) {
- pr_err("Cannot find parent device\n");
+ pr_warn("Cannot find parent device. Skipping batadv-on-batadv check for %s\n",
+ net_dev->name);
return false;
}