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 --- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c index 59d19097..b25afc7f 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c @@ -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; }