netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] netns: audit netdevice creation with IFLA_NET_NS

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Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:20:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no,
	arvid.brodin@...en.se, alex.aring@...il.com,
	linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] netns: audit netdevice creation with
 IFLA_NET_NS_[PID|FD]

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:28:12 +0100

> When one of these attributes is set, the netdevice is created into the netns
> pointed by IFLA_NET_NS_[PID|FD] (see the call to rtnl_create_link() in
> rtnl_newlink()). Let's call this netns the dest_net. After this creation, if the
> newlink handler exists, it is called with a netns argument that points to the
> netns where the netlink message has been received (called src_net in the code)
> which is the link netns.
> Hence, with one of these attributes, it's possible to create a x-netns
> netdevice.

Series applied, thanks.
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