netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] netns: don't allocate an id for dead netns

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Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] netns: don't allocate an id for dead netns

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Fri,  3 Apr 2015 12:02:37 +0200

> First, let's explain the problem.
> Suppose you have an ipip interface that stands in the netns foo and its link
> part in the netns bar (so the netns bar has an nsid into the netns foo).
> Now, you remove the netns bar:
>  - the bar nsid into the netns foo is removed
>  - the netns exit method of ipip is called, thus our ipip iface is removed:
>    => a netlink message is built in the netns foo to advertise this deletion
>    => this netlink message requests an nsid for bar, thus a new nsid is
>       allocated for bar and never removed.
> 
> This patch adds a check in peernet2id() so that an id cannot be allocated for
> a netns which is currently destroyed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied.
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