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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2010-05-04 17:36:48 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-05-21 09:37:33 -0700
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hotplug: netns aware uevent_helper
It only makes sense for uevent_helper to get events in the intial namespaces. It's invocation is not per namespace and it is not clear how we could make it's invocation namespace aware. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject_uevent.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 239c8e83fc28..59c15511d58a 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-
+#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
#include <linux/socket.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netlink.h>
@@ -99,6 +99,21 @@ static int kobj_bcast_filter(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data)
return 0;
}
+static int kobj_usermode_filter(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+ const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops;
+
+ ops = kobj_ns_ops(kobj);
+ if (ops) {
+ const void *init_ns, *ns;
+ ns = kobj->ktype->namespace(kobj);
+ init_ns = ops->initial_ns();
+ return ns != init_ns;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* kobject_uevent_env - send an uevent with environmental data
*
@@ -274,7 +289,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
#endif
/* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */
- if (uevent_helper[0]) {
+ if (uevent_helper[0] && !kobj_usermode_filter(kobj)) {
char *argv [3];
argv [0] = uevent_helper;