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SubjectRe: [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
> the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
> compiled and run at the same time. To do this only
> virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
> namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
> in the kobject tree.
>
> Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
> hardware wise that needs device management there should
> be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
> by implication sysfs. The gain in ease of testing
> and code coverage should be significant.
>
> I.e. people running distributions that make it next to
> impossible to boot without sysfs should at be able to
> boot a test kernel now.
>
> Plus no ABIs are harmed with this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>

> ---
> net/Kconfig | 2 +-
> net/core/dev.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> net/core/net-sysfs.c | 7 +++++++
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
> index d789d79..8c3d97c 100644
> --- a/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/Kconfig
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ menu "Networking options"
> config NET_NS
> bool "Network namespace support"
> default n
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !SYSFS && NAMESPACES
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NAMESPACES
> help
> Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances
> of the network stack.
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index b8a4fd0..a7f0461 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -4449,6 +4449,15 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
> if (dev->features & NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL)
> goto out;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> + /* Don't allow real devices to be moved when sysfs
> + * is enabled.
> + */
> + err = -EINVAL;
> + if (dev->dev.parent)
> + goto out;
> +#endif
> +
> /* Ensure the device has been registrered */
> err = -EINVAL;
> if (dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED)
> @@ -4506,6 +4515,8 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
> */
> dev_addr_discard(dev);
>
> + netdev_unregister_kobject(dev);
> +
> /* Actually switch the network namespace */
> dev_net_set(dev, net);
>
> @@ -4522,7 +4533,6 @@ int dev_change_net_namespace(struct net_device *dev, struct net *net, const char
> }
>
> /* Fixup kobjects */
> - netdev_unregister_kobject(dev);
> err = netdev_register_kobject(dev);
> WARN_ON(err);
>
> diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> index 92d6b94..85cb8bd 100644
> --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> @@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device * net)
> struct device *dev = &(net->dev);
>
> kobject_get(&dev->kobj);
> +
> + if (dev_net(net) != &init_net)
> + return;
> +
> device_del(dev);
> }
>
> @@ -501,6 +505,9 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net)
> #endif
> #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
>
> + if (dev_net(net) != &init_net)
> + return 0;
> +
> return device_add(dev);
> }
>


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