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Message-Id: <20070912.030427.88485717.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] net: Make socket creation namespace safe.
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:23:01 -0600
>
> This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
> and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting. By
> virtue of this all socket create methods are touched. In addition
> the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
> you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.
>
> Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
> network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
> network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
> has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
> Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
> exotic protocols are supported.
>
> Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
> pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Patch applied, thanks.
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