netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 bpf 1/2] bpf: Support sk lookup in netns with id 0

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:42:31 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>
Cc:     daniel@...earbox.net, ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dsahern@...il.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 bpf 1/2] bpf: Support sk lookup in netns with id 0

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:29:33PM -0800, Joe Stringer wrote:
> David Ahern and Nicolas Dichtel report that the handling of the netns id
> 0 is incorrect for the BPF socket lookup helpers: rather than finding
> the netns with id 0, it is resolving to the current netns. This renders
> the netns_id 0 inaccessible.
> 
> To fix this, adjust the API for the netns to treat all negative s32
> values as a lookup in the current netns, while any values with a
> positive value in the signed 32-bit integer space would result in a
> lookup for a socket in the netns corresponding to that id. As before, if
> the netns with that ID does not exist, no socket will be found.
> Furthermore, if any bits are set in the upper 32-bits, then no socket
> will be found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>
..
> +/* Current network namespace */
> +#define BPF_CURRENT_NETNS		(-1L)

I was about to apply it, but then noticed that the name doesn't match
the rest of the names.
Could you rename it to BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS ?

Also reword the commit log so it's less misleading.

thx!