netdev - Re: netns_id in bpf_sk_lookup

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:39:14 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: netns_id in bpf_sk_lookup_{tcp,udp}

On 11/19/18 11:36 AM, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Hi David, thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> This is more of an oversight through iterations, the runtime lookup
> will fail to find a socket if the netns value is greater than the
> range of a uint32 so I think it would actually make more sense to drop
> the parameter size to u32 rather than u64 so that this would be
> validated at load time rather than silently returning NULL because of
> a bad parameter.

ok. I was wondering if it was a u64 to handle nsid of 0 which as I
understand it is a legal nsid. If you drop to u32, how do you know when
nsid has been set?

> 
> I'll send a patch to bpf tree.
> 
ok.