From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] tools: ynl: add uns-admin-perm to genetlink
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 15:10:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260304141020.23270-1-antonio@openvpn.net> (raw)
GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM may be required by protocols using
the `genetlink` family, however, this flag is currently
only allowed in `genetlink-legacy`.
Add it to the list of possible values in genetlink.yaml too.
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-net-next/issues/33
Suggested-by: Ralf Lici <ralf@mandelbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
---
As described in the linked GH issue, we hit an issue with OpenVPN
running in a user namespace that was unable to send netlink
messages to the ovpn kernel module.
After checking how other modules handles this, we saw that we
required the uns-admin-perm cmd-flag. However, this flag is allowed
only for genetlink-legacy protocols, which ovpn is not.
I don't see a clear reason why genetlink shouldn't have this flag too,
hence I am proposing this patch.
Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
index b020a537d8ac..a1194d5d93fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ properties:
description: Command flags.
type: array
items:
- enum: [ admin-perm ]
+ enum: [ admin-perm, uns-admin-perm ]
dont-validate:
description: Kernel attribute validation flags.
type: array
--
2.52.0
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 14:10 Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2026-03-05 11:36 ` [PATCH net-next] tools: ynl: add uns-admin-perm to genetlink Donald Hunter
2026-03-05 15:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-06 3:32 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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