netdev - Re: cross namespace interface notification for tun devices

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Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:06:59 +0200
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Mathias <mathias@...l-andersen.dk>
Subject: Re: cross namespace interface notification for tun devices

Le 02/10/2017 à 13:11, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>> 1. Move the process to netns B, open the netlink socket and move back the
>> process to netns A. The socket will remain in netns B and you will receive all
>> netlink messages related to netns B.
>>
>> 2. Assign a nsid to netns B in netns A and use NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID on your
>> netlink socket (see iproute2).
> 
> Both of these seem to rely on the process knowing where the device is
> being moved and having access to that namespace. I don't think these
> two things are a given though. Unless I'm missing something?
I didn't understand correctly.
Your control process cannot monitor or control an interface which is in a
unkown/hidden netns. But x-netns interfaces are special. We already add a way to
identify peer netns for this kind of interfaces.
If an handler get_link_net was added to the rtnl_link_ops of the tun driver, it
will help to identify netns A when you are in netns B. But you need the opposite.
I already try a patch to advertise via netlink the dst netns when an interface
moves to a new netns. I think that it is valid for x-netns interfaces.
As soon as you can identify the dst netns, your problem is solved, right?


Nicolas