netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC iptables] iptables: Per-net ns lock

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:50:34 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pablo@...filter.org, rstoyanov1@...il.com,
        fw@...len.de, ptikhomirov@...tuozzo.com, avagin@...tuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC iptables] iptables: Per-net ns lock

Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> Pablo, Florian, could you please provide comments on this?
> 
> On 09.04.2018 19:55, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > In CRIU and LXC-restore we met the situation,
> > when iptables in container can't be restored
> > because of permission denied:
> > 
> > https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/469
> > 
> > Containers want to restore their own net ns,
> > while they may have no their own mnt ns.
> > This case they share host's /run/xtables.lock
> > file, but they may not have permission to open
> > it.
> > 
> > Patch makes /run/xtables.lock to be per-namespace,
> > i.e., to refer to the caller task's net ns.

It looks ok to me but then again the entire userspace
lock thing is a ugly band aid :-/