netdev - Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:25:51 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:36:33PM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
>>
>> BZ: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66691
>>
>> There is no point to allow moving a macvlan device to
>> another namespace while the lower device is still in
>> this namespace. tunnels already set this flag.
>
> Can't we solve this somehow differently, like not showing anything at all
> etc.? I guess this is a feature some people use and haven't noticed yet.
>

I don't understand what you mean by "not showing anything at all".
I assume you mean mac1@xxx, not matter whether we show xxx
here, mac1 relies on xxx to function.

Please give a real use case rather than just guessing, I don't think
there is any valid case until we support moving multiple devices into
a netns atomically.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html