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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@openvz.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470B71CD.3000706@openvz.org> (raw)

Currently indexes for netdevices come sequentially one by
one, and the same stays true even for devices that are 
created for namespaces.

Side effects of this are:
 * lo device has not 1 index in a namespace. This may break
   some userspace that relies on it (and AFAIR something
   really broke in OpenVZ VEs without this);
 * after some time namespaces will have devices with indexes
   like 1000000 os similar. This might be confusing for a
   human (tools will not mind).

So move the (currently "global" and static) ifindex variable
on the struct net, making the indexes allocation look more
like on a standalone machine.

Moreover - when we have indexes intersect between namespaces,
we may catch more BUGs in the future related to "wrong device 
was found for a given index".

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

---

diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 93aa87d..83a18d0 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ struct net {
 	struct list_head 	dev_base_head;
 	struct hlist_head 	*dev_name_head;
 	struct hlist_head	*dev_index_head;
+
+	int			ifindex;
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index e7e728a..a08ed8c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3443,12 +3443,11 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned 
  */
 static int dev_new_index(struct net *net)
 {
-	static int ifindex;
 	for (;;) {
-		if (++ifindex <= 0)
-			ifindex = 1;
-		if (!__dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex))
-			return ifindex;
+		if (++net->ifindex <= 0)
+			net->ifindex = 1;
+		if (!__dev_get_by_index(net, net->ifindex))
+			return net->ifindex;
 	}
 }
 

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09 12:19 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-10-09 14:48 ` [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace Daniel Lezcano
2007-10-09 16:18 ` David Stevens
2007-10-09 17:43   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 20:11     ` David Miller
2007-10-09 21:00       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 21:17         ` David Miller
2007-10-09 20:12   ` David Miller
2007-10-09 17:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10  8:55   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 18:15     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10 18:34   ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-10 19:51     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-11  9:32       ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-11 17:22         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 20:12 ` David Miller

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