lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Sep]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/5] netns: allow to identify peer netns
Le 24/09/2014 18:48, Cong Wang a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
>>> I think in this case your ID's are still available, but aren't you
>>> providing a new way
>>> for the inner netns device to escape which we are trying to avoid?
>>
>> It's why the ids depend on user ns. Only if user ns are the same we allow to
>> get an id for a peer netns.
>
> Too late, userns is relatively new, relying on it breaks our existing
> assumption.
>
I don't get your point. netns has been added in kernel after user ns:
acce292c82d4 user namespace: add the framework => 2.6.23
5f256becd868 [NET]: Basic network namespace infrastructure. => 2.6.24

In the kernel, each netns is linked with a user ns.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-09-25 11:21    [W:0.158 / U:0.088 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site