netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/13] SCTP: Enable netns

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Date:	Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	vyasevich@...il.com, jan.ariyasu@...il.com,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jan.ariyasu@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] SCTP: Enable netns

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:50:46 -0700

> Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> Hi Eric
>>
>> Associations are looked up by ports, but then verifyed by addresses.
>> Also, associations belong to sockets and simply validating the socket
>> namespace should be sufficient.
> 
> True.  Your set of patches isn't quite as likely to malfunction as it
> looked at first glance.  It requires address reuse which happens accross
> namespaces but not too frequently.
> 
> As for validating the socket namespace I agree that is the fix and my
> patchset winds up doing it.

FWIW I much prefer Eric's patch set, it was so significantly easier to
read and validate than Jan's.
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