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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:43:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FB969A.607@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392162690-6647-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Le 12/02/2014 00:51, Cong Wang a écrit :
> From: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
>
> BZ: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66691
>
> macvlan and vlan both use iflink to identify its lower device,
> however, after such device is moved to the new netns, its iflink
> would become meaningless as ifindex is per netns. So, instead of
> forbid them moving to another netns, just clear this field so that
> it will not be dumped at least.
>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
I wonder if this patch breaks things in ip tunnels.
For example, ip6_tunnel uses iflink to find tunnels that are bound to an interface.
If you reset this field, ipip6_tunnel_lookup() will fail when the tunnel moves
to another netns.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11 23:51 [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns Cong Wang
2014-02-11 23:51 ` [PATCH] macvlan: unregister net device when netdev_upper_dev_link() fails Cong Wang
2014-02-13 22:13   ` David Miller
2014-02-11 23:51 ` [PATCH] net: correct error path in rtnl_newlink() Cong Wang
2014-02-13 22:13   ` David Miller
2014-02-12 15:43 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2014-02-13  1:18   ` [PATCH] net: clear iflink when moving to a new netns Cong Wang
2014-02-13  2:00     ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-02-13 22:44       ` Cong Wang
2014-02-12 16:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-13  1:20   ` Cong Wang
2014-02-13  2:01     ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-02-12 23:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-13  1:34   ` Cong Wang

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