Re: [PATCH net-next] rxrpc: Support network namespacing

From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 13:21:03 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 17:02:32 +0100

> Support network namespacing in AF_RXRPC with the following changes:
>
> (1) All the local endpoint, peer and call lists, locks, counters, etc. are
> moved into the per-namespace record.
>
> (2) All the connection tracking is moved into the per-namespace record
> with the exception of the client connection ID tree, which is kept
> global so that connection IDs are kept unique per-machine.
>
> (3) Each namespace gets its own epoch. This allows each network namespace
> to pretend to be a separate client machine.
>
> (4) The /proc/net/rxrpc_xxx files are now called /proc/net/rxrpc/xxx and
> the contents reflect the namespace.
>
> fs/afs/ should be okay with this patch as it explicitly requires the current
> net namespace to be init_net to permit a mount to proceed at the moment. It
> will, however, need updating so that cells, IP addresses and DNS records are
> per-namespace also.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.