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Commit 4ff66cae authored by Christian Brauner's avatar Christian Brauner Committed by David S. Miller
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rtnetlink: require unique netns identifier



Since we've added support for IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_{DEL,GET,SET,NEW}LINK
it is possible for userspace to send us requests with three different
properties to identify a target network namespace. This affects at least
RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK. Each of them could potentially refer to a different
network namespace which is confusing. For legacy reasons the kernel will
pick the IFLA_NET_NS_PID property first and then look for the
IFLA_NET_NS_FD property but there is no reason to extend this type of
behavior to network namespace ids. The regression potential is quite
minimal since the rtnetlink requests in question either won't allow
IFLA_IF_NETNSID requests before 4.16 is out (RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK) or don't
support IFLA_NET_NS_{PID,FD} (RTM_{DEL,GET}LINK) in the first place.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 762c330d
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