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From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den-3ImXcnM4P+0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Pid namespaces problems
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:53:02 +0300
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To: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Daniel Lezcano wrote:

>  * the first one is the locking of the network namespace list by
> rtnl_lock, so from the timer callback we can not browse the network
> namespace list to check the age of the routes. It is a problem I would
> like to talk with Denis if he has time

>From my point of view, the situation is clear. The timer should be
per/namespace. The situation is completely different as one in IPv4.

>  * the loopback refcounting is not correctly handled in ipv6. This
> protocol do not expect to have the loopback to be unregistered, so there
> is some problem with the addr_ifdown function when exiting the network
> namespace

I think that default routing targets and similar staff should be
dynamically allocated as a start and submitted now. No need to wait
NETNS infrastructure. I have sent similar cleanup for fib rules
recently. No answer from David yet.