Re: [patch net] net: forbid netdev used by mirred tc act from being moved to another netns

[Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>]

Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:51:42AM CET, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>> Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:53:57PM CET, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com wrote:
>>>On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>>>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>>>>
>>>> Currently, user may choose to move device that is used by mirred action
>>>> to another network namespace. That is wrong as the action still remains
>>>> in the original namespace and references non-existing ifindex.
>>>
>>>It is a pure display issue, the action itself should function well
>>>because we only use ifindex to lookup netdevice once and
>>>we save the netdevice pointer in action.
>>>
>>>If you really want to fix it, just tell iprout2 to display netnsid together
>>>with ifindex.
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>> It is not only display issue. I think it is wrong to let a netdevice
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>What's wrong with it? Is it mis-functioning?

Nope.

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>> dissapear from underneath the mirred action. You certainly cannot add an
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>It disappears only because we don't display it properly, nothing else.

Okay.

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>> action mirred with device from another net namespace. So should we allow
>> that?
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>On the other hand why linking a device to mirred action prevents it
>from moving to another netns? Also, device can be moved back too.
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>I don't see anything wrong with it except displaying it.

Okay. What about my question? Should we allow adding an action mirred
pointing to a netdev in another netns? I think it would make sense in
case we consider movement of mirred device legit.