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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namespace: Add an identifier to the namespace file
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:30:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sja4kxjq.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5063A6DD.9070202@acm.org> (Corey Minyard's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:07:41 -0500")

Corey Minyard <tcminyard@gmail.com> writes:

> On 09/26/2012 07:48 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> For netfilter or any other interface what should happen is that a file
>> descriptor is passed in and the network namespace is derived from the
>> file descriptor.
>>
>> Given that netfilter is per network namespace I'm not certain how
>> filtering per network namespace would make sense.
>>
>> When I have poked my nose into netfilter I have had the hard problem
>> that I have not figured out how to translate the parameters supplied
>> by userspace into a more appropriate in kernel form, so I'm not certain
>> how to implement passing a file descriptor into netfilter efficiently.
>
> Yeah, that's kind of where I am stuck, too. netfilter used to be global,
> so if it's not, this may be a "You can't do that any more".

I expect this will come down closer to you can't do it that way anymore.

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2012-09-27  0:48     ` [PATCH] namespace: Add an identifier to the namespace file Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-27  1:07       ` Corey Minyard
2012-09-27  2:30         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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