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authorNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>2015-05-07 11:02:53 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-05-09 22:15:31 -0400
commit59324cf35aba5336b611074028777838a963d03b (patch)
tree67e6903c5a0204281060493d301b62640cb9a066 /net/core
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netlink: allow to listen "all" netns
More accurately, listen all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns where the netlink socket is opened. For this purpose, a netlink socket option is added: NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID. When this option is set on a netlink socket, this socket will receive netlink notifications from all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns where the socket has been opened. The nsid is sent to userland via an anscillary data. With this patch, a daemon needs only one socket to listen many netns. This is useful when the number of netns is high. Because 0 is a valid value for a nsid, the field nsid_is_set indicates if the field nsid is valid or not. skb->cb is initialized to 0 on skb allocation, thus we are sure that we will never send a nsid 0 by error to the userland. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net_namespace.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index ae5008b097de..a665bf490c88 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int peernet2id_alloc(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(peernet2id_alloc);
/* This function returns, if assigned, the id of a peer netns. */
-static int peernet2id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
+int peernet2id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
{
unsigned long flags;
int id;
@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@ static int peernet2id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
return id;
}
+/* This function returns true is the peer netns has an id assigned into the
+ * current netns.
+ */
+bool peernet_has_id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
+{
+ return peernet2id(net, peer) >= 0;
+}
+
struct net *get_net_ns_by_id(struct net *net, int id)
{
unsigned long flags;