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Commit 93c64764 authored by Kevin Cernekee's avatar Kevin Cernekee Committed by David S. Miller
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netlink: Add netns check on taps



Currently, a nlmon link inside a child namespace can observe systemwide
netlink activity.  Filter the traffic so that nlmon can only sniff
netlink messages from its own netns.

Test case:

    vpnns -- bash -c "ip link add nlmon0 type nlmon; \
                      ip link set nlmon0 up; \
                      tcpdump -i nlmon0 -q -w /tmp/nlmon.pcap -U" &
    sudo ip xfrm state add src 10.1.1.1 dst 10.1.1.2 proto esp \
        spi 0x1 mode transport \
        auth sha1 0x6162633132330000000000000000000000000000 \
        enc aes 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    grep --binary abc123 /tmp/nlmon.pcap

Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2aab6b40
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