Re: [PATCH net 1/1 v4] rtnetlink: require unique netns identifier

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:33 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed,  7 Feb 2018 13:53:20 +0100
>
>> Since we've added support for IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_{DEL,GET,SET,NEW}LINK
>> it is possible for userspace to send us requests with three different
>> properties to identify a target network namespace. This affects at least
>> RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK. Each of them could potentially refer to a different
>> network namespace which is confusing. For legacy reasons the kernel will
>> pick the IFLA_NET_NS_PID property first and then look for the
>> IFLA_NET_NS_FD property but there is no reason to extend this type of
>> behavior to network namespace ids. The regression potential is quite
>> minimal since the rtnetlink requests in question either won't allow
>> IFLA_IF_NETNSID requests before 4.16 is out (RTM_{NEW,SET}LINK) or don't
>> support IFLA_NET_NS_{PID,FD} (RTM_{DEL,GET}LINK) in the first place.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks Christian.

Thanks for applying, David.