Re: [git pull] VFS patches, the first series

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Aug 23 2008 - 03:24:31 EST


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:08:25PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Ok. The situation is now clear.
>
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default does not currently exist in network
> namespaces. This looks like an oversight.
>
> In my network namespace I have the interfaces lo, sit, veth0
>
> We have the result that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/veth0 has /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/lo.
>
> lo gets unregistered before veth0 when we bring the network namespaces down.
> Then when veth gets unregistered we have a problem.
>
> I'm not certain what to do about it.

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 16fc6f4..d3c156e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -3054,14 +3054,23 @@ static ctl_table ipv4_route_table[] = {
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};

-static __net_initdata struct ctl_path ipv4_route_path[] = {
+static struct ctl_table empty[1];
+
+static struct ctl_table ipv4_skeleton[] =
+{
+ { .procname = "route", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4_ROUTE,
+ .child = ipv4_route_table},
+ { .procname = "neigh", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4_NEIGH,
+ .child = empty},
+ { }
+};
+
+static __net_initdata struct ctl_path ipv4_path[] = {
{ .procname = "net", .ctl_name = CTL_NET, },
{ .procname = "ipv4", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4, },
- { .procname = "route", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4_ROUTE, },
{ },
};

-
static struct ctl_table ipv4_route_flush_table[] = {
{
.ctl_name = NET_IPV4_ROUTE_FLUSH,
@@ -3074,6 +3083,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_route_flush_table[] = {
{ .ctl_name = 0 },
};

+static __net_initdata struct ctl_path ipv4_route_path[] = {
+ { .procname = "net", .ctl_name = CTL_NET, },
+ { .procname = "ipv4", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4, },
+ { .procname = "route", .ctl_name = NET_IPV4_ROUTE, },
+ { },
+};
+
static __net_init int sysctl_route_net_init(struct net *net)
{
struct ctl_table *tbl;
@@ -3223,7 +3239,7 @@ int __init ip_rt_init(void)
*/
void __init ip_static_sysctl_init(void)
{
- register_sysctl_paths(ipv4_route_path, ipv4_route_table);
+ register_sysctl_paths(ipv4_path, ipv4_skeleton);
}
#endif

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