linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods

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Message-ID: <b6f0300a-7c12-bea1-6337-5a6202c63045@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 15:12:52 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jonas Bonn <jonas@...rbonn.se>, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods

On 11/5/19 10:39 PM, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> Changed in v2:
> - address comment from Nicolas
> - add accumulated ACK's
> 
> Currently, Netlink has partial support for acting outside of the current
> namespace.  It appears that the intention was to extend this to all the
> methods eventually, but it hasn't been done to date.
> 
> With this series RTM_SETLINK, RTM_NEWLINK, RTM_NEWADDR, and RTM_NEWNSID
> are extended to respect the selection of the namespace to work in.
> 
> /Jonas
> 

Tests should be added to either netdevice.sh or rtnetlink.sh under
tools/testing/selftests/net for the new capabilities added here.
Negative tests as well.