netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns

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Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:18:25 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 15:51 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
> 
> BZ: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66691
> 
> macvlan and vlan both use iflink to identify its lower device,
> however, after such device is moved to the new netns, its iflink
> would become meaningless as ifindex is per netns. So, instead of
> forbid them moving to another netns, just clear this field so that
> it will not be dumped at least.
[...]

And what if it's moved back into the same netns?

I think iflink should be changed to a net_device pointer, so it remains
valid for in-kernel users but rtnetlink can do the netns check before
revealing it to userland.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.

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