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Message-ID: <1279795286.12439.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:41:26 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't
 remove

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 03:35 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> >> The warning patch just makes things fail faster.  Although I get some of the
> >> wireless interfaces for hwsim when I use this one.
> >
> > Hmm, I didn't.
> 
> To be clear I just get hwsim0.  Not wlan0 or wlan1.

Ah, yes, but that's just a regular netdev, you can pretty much ignore
it. It just shows all hwsim traffic as it is on the "air" for sniffing.

> > Right, it actually starts working again with that patch you sent.
> > However, netns support is really broken:
> >
> > <create net namespace, put phy0/wlan0 into it>
> 
> Do we have a convenient command line tool to do this?
> I remember there being a different netlink message from
> normal network devices.

iw phy0 set netns <pid>

http://git.sipsolutions.net/iw.git

> > root@kvm:~# ip link
> > 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
> >     link/ether 02:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > 7: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 16436 qdisc noop state DOWN 
> >     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > root@kvm:~# ls /sys/class/net/
> > eth0  hwsim0  lo  wlan1  wlan2
> 
> I think this is actually the output of something working.
> 
> I expect after you created a new netns you didn't mount
> a new instance of /sys.  /sys remembers which netns you
> had when you mounted it.  So you have to mount /sys again
> so you can see the /sys/class/net for the network namespace
> you are in.

Ohh, oops! I saw all the "current->" references in the code and somehow
expected the same instance of sysfs to show the right thing.

Yes, it works now. But the patch below doesn't seem to work, am I
missing something?

johannes

---
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    2 ++
 net/core/net-sysfs.c      |    3 ++-
 net/wireless/sysfs.c      |    9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/netdevice.h	2010-07-22 10:01:22.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/include/linux/netdevice.h	2010-07-22 10:11:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -2148,6 +2148,8 @@ extern void dev_seq_stop(struct seq_file
 extern int netdev_class_create_file(struct class_attribute *class_attr);
 extern void netdev_class_remove_file(struct class_attribute *class_attr);
 
+extern struct kobj_ns_type_operations net_ns_type_operations;
+
 extern char *netdev_drivername(const struct net_device *dev, char *buffer, int len);
 
 extern void linkwatch_run_queue(void);
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/core/net-sysfs.c	2010-07-22 10:01:22.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/core/net-sysfs.c	2010-07-22 10:11:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -785,12 +785,13 @@ static const void *net_netlink_ns(struct
 	return sock_net(sk);
 }
 
-static struct kobj_ns_type_operations net_ns_type_operations = {
+struct kobj_ns_type_operations net_ns_type_operations = {
 	.type = KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NET,
 	.current_ns = net_current_ns,
 	.netlink_ns = net_netlink_ns,
 	.initial_ns = net_initial_ns,
 };
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_ns_type_operations);
 
 static void net_kobj_ns_exit(struct net *net)
 {
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/sysfs.c	2010-07-22 10:01:22.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/sysfs.c	2010-07-22 10:13:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ static int wiphy_resume(struct device *d
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static const void *wiphy_namespace(struct device *d)
+{
+	struct wiphy *wiphy = container_of(d, struct wiphy, dev);
+
+	return wiphy_net(wiphy);
+}
+
 struct class ieee80211_class = {
 	.name = "ieee80211",
 	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
@@ -120,6 +127,8 @@ struct class ieee80211_class = {
 #endif
 	.suspend = wiphy_suspend,
 	.resume = wiphy_resume,
+	.ns_type = &net_ns_type_operations,
+	.namespace = wiphy_namespace,
 };
 
 int wiphy_sysfs_init(void)


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