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batman-adv: Demote batadv-on-batadv skip error message

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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>
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Sven Eckelmann 2022-02-27 23:40:40 +01:00 committed by Simon Wunderlich
parent eb7da4f17d
commit 6ee3c393ee
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net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
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@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ static bool batadv_is_on_batman_iface(const struct net_device *net_dev)
/* 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;
}