1 /* dummy.c: a dummy net driver
3 The purpose of this driver is to provide a device to point a
4 route through, but not to actually transmit packets.
6 Why? If you have a machine whose only connection is an occasional
7 PPP/SLIP/PLIP link, you can only connect to your own hostname
8 when the link is up. Otherwise you have to use localhost.
9 This isn't very consistent.
11 One solution is to set up a dummy link using PPP/SLIP/PLIP,
12 but this seems (to me) too much overhead for too little gain.
13 This driver provides a small alternative. Thus you can do
15 [when not running slip]
16 ifconfig dummy slip.addr.ess.here up
21 This was written by looking at Donald Becker's skeleton driver
22 and the loopback driver. I then threw away anything that didn't
23 apply! Thanks to Alan Cox for the key clue on what to do with
26 Nick Holloway, 27th May 1994
27 [I tweaked this explanation a little but that's all]
28 Alan Cox, 30th May 1994
31 #include <linux/module.h>
32 #include <linux/kernel.h>
33 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
34 #include <linux/etherdevice.h>
35 #include <linux/init.h>
36 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
37 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
38 #include <net/rtnetlink.h>
39 #include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
41 static int numdummies
= 1;
43 /* fake multicast ability */
44 static void set_multicast_list(struct net_device
*dev
)
51 struct u64_stats_sync syncp
;
54 static struct rtnl_link_stats64
*dummy_get_stats64(struct net_device
*dev
,
55 struct rtnl_link_stats64
*stats
)
59 for_each_possible_cpu(i
) {
60 const struct pcpu_dstats
*dstats
;
64 dstats
= per_cpu_ptr(dev
->dstats
, i
);
66 start
= u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh(&dstats
->syncp
);
67 tbytes
= dstats
->tx_bytes
;
68 tpackets
= dstats
->tx_packets
;
69 } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_bh(&dstats
->syncp
, start
));
70 stats
->tx_bytes
+= tbytes
;
71 stats
->tx_packets
+= tpackets
;
76 static netdev_tx_t
dummy_xmit(struct sk_buff
*skb
, struct net_device
*dev
)
78 struct pcpu_dstats
*dstats
= this_cpu_ptr(dev
->dstats
);
80 u64_stats_update_begin(&dstats
->syncp
);
82 dstats
->tx_bytes
+= skb
->len
;
83 u64_stats_update_end(&dstats
->syncp
);
89 static int dummy_dev_init(struct net_device
*dev
)
92 dev
->dstats
= alloc_percpu(struct pcpu_dstats
);
96 for_each_possible_cpu(i
) {
97 struct pcpu_dstats
*dstats
;
98 dstats
= per_cpu_ptr(dev
->dstats
, i
);
99 u64_stats_init(&dstats
->syncp
);
104 static void dummy_dev_uninit(struct net_device
*dev
)
106 free_percpu(dev
->dstats
);
109 static int dummy_change_carrier(struct net_device
*dev
, bool new_carrier
)
112 netif_carrier_on(dev
);
114 netif_carrier_off(dev
);
118 static const struct net_device_ops dummy_netdev_ops
= {
119 .ndo_init
= dummy_dev_init
,
120 .ndo_uninit
= dummy_dev_uninit
,
121 .ndo_start_xmit
= dummy_xmit
,
122 .ndo_validate_addr
= eth_validate_addr
,
123 .ndo_set_rx_mode
= set_multicast_list
,
124 .ndo_set_mac_address
= eth_mac_addr
,
125 .ndo_get_stats64
= dummy_get_stats64
,
126 .ndo_change_carrier
= dummy_change_carrier
,
129 static void dummy_setup(struct net_device
*dev
)
133 /* Initialize the device structure. */
134 dev
->netdev_ops
= &dummy_netdev_ops
;
135 dev
->destructor
= free_netdev
;
137 /* Fill in device structure with ethernet-generic values. */
138 dev
->tx_queue_len
= 0;
139 dev
->flags
|= IFF_NOARP
;
140 dev
->flags
&= ~IFF_MULTICAST
;
141 dev
->priv_flags
|= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE
;
142 dev
->features
|= NETIF_F_SG
| NETIF_F_FRAGLIST
| NETIF_F_TSO
;
143 dev
->features
|= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM
| NETIF_F_HIGHDMA
| NETIF_F_LLTX
;
144 eth_hw_addr_random(dev
);
147 static int dummy_validate(struct nlattr
*tb
[], struct nlattr
*data
[])
149 if (tb
[IFLA_ADDRESS
]) {
150 if (nla_len(tb
[IFLA_ADDRESS
]) != ETH_ALEN
)
152 if (!is_valid_ether_addr(nla_data(tb
[IFLA_ADDRESS
])))
153 return -EADDRNOTAVAIL
;
158 static struct rtnl_link_ops dummy_link_ops __read_mostly
= {
160 .setup
= dummy_setup
,
161 .validate
= dummy_validate
,
164 /* Number of dummy devices to be set up by this module. */
165 module_param(numdummies
, int, 0);
166 MODULE_PARM_DESC(numdummies
, "Number of dummy pseudo devices");
168 static int __init
dummy_init_one(void)
170 struct net_device
*dev_dummy
;
173 dev_dummy
= alloc_netdev(0, "dummy%d", dummy_setup
);
177 dev_dummy
->rtnl_link_ops
= &dummy_link_ops
;
178 err
= register_netdevice(dev_dummy
);
184 free_netdev(dev_dummy
);
188 static int __init
dummy_init_module(void)
193 err
= __rtnl_link_register(&dummy_link_ops
);
197 for (i
= 0; i
< numdummies
&& !err
; i
++) {
198 err
= dummy_init_one();
202 __rtnl_link_unregister(&dummy_link_ops
);
210 static void __exit
dummy_cleanup_module(void)
212 rtnl_link_unregister(&dummy_link_ops
);
215 module_init(dummy_init_module
);
216 module_exit(dummy_cleanup_module
);
217 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
218 MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("dummy");