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net: Allow DCBnl to use other namespaces besides init_net

Message ID 20121210064813.10883.88194.stgit@nitbit.x32
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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John Fastabend Dec. 10, 2012, 6:48 a.m. UTC
Allow DCB and net namespace to work together. This is useful if you
have containers that are bound to 'phys' interfaces that want to
also manage their DCB attributes.

The net namespace is taken from sock_net(skb->sk) of the netlink skb.

CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
---
 net/dcb/dcbnl.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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Comments

David Miller Dec. 10, 2012, 7:09 p.m. UTC | #1
From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:48:13 -0800

> Allow DCB and net namespace to work together. This is useful if you
> have containers that are bound to 'phys' interfaces that want to
> also manage their DCB attributes.
> 
> The net namespace is taken from sock_net(skb->sk) of the netlink skb.
> 
> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
index b07c75d..1b588e2 100644
--- a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
+++ b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
@@ -1665,9 +1665,6 @@  static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 	if ((nlh->nlmsg_type == RTM_SETDCB) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
-	if (!net_eq(net, &init_net))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	ret = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*dcb), tb, DCB_ATTR_MAX,
 			  dcbnl_rtnl_policy);
 	if (ret < 0)
@@ -1684,7 +1681,7 @@  static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 	if (!tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	netdev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, nla_data(tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME]));
+	netdev = dev_get_by_name(net, nla_data(tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME]));
 	if (!netdev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
@@ -1708,7 +1705,7 @@  static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 
 	nlmsg_end(reply_skb, reply_nlh);
 
-	ret = rtnl_unicast(reply_skb, &init_net, portid);
+	ret = rtnl_unicast(reply_skb, net, portid);
 out:
 	dev_put(netdev);
 	return ret;