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Commit 1ae132b0 authored by Hans Schillstrom's avatar Hans Schillstrom Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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IPVS: Change of socket usage to enable name space exit.



If the sync daemons run in a name space while it crashes
or get killed, there is no way to stop them except for a reboot.
When all patches are there, ip_vs_core will handle register_pernet_(),
i.e. ip_vs_sync_init() and ip_vs_sync_cleanup() will be removed.

Kernel threads should not increment the use count of a socket.
By calling sk_change_net() after creating a socket this is avoided.
sock_release cant be used intead sk_release_kernel() should be used.

Thanks Eric W Biederman for your advices.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
[horms@verge.net.au: minor edit to changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
parent 103a9778
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