Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Record uid and gid in xt_AUDIT

[Richard Weinberger <richard@sigma-star.at>]

Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2024, 03:27:13 CEST schrieb Florian Westphal:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@sigma-star.at> wrote:
> > Maybe I have wrong expectations.
> > e.g. I expected that sock_net_uid() will return 1000 when
> > uid 1000 does something like: unshare -Umr followed by a veth connection
> > to the host (initial user/net namespace).
> > Shouldn't on the host side a forwarded skb have a ->dev that belongs uid
> > 1000's net namespace?
> 
> You mean skb->sk?  dev doesn't make much sense in this context to me.
> Else, please clarify.

Well, this was a brain fart on my side.
I wondered about the sock_net_uid(net, NULL) case and wrongly assumed
that a skb I see in the outer namespace can have a skb->dev from another
namespace.
It would be awesome to have some information about
the originating net namespace.

Thanks,
//richard

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