Re: [PATCH net-next] net/smc: add support for netdevice in containers.

[Dust Li]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:41:25PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 11:42 +0800, Dust Li wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:35:45AM +0800, Albert Huang wrote:
>> > If the netdevice is within a container and communicates externally
>> > through network technologies like VXLAN, we won't be able to find
>> > routing information in the init_net namespace. To address this issue,
>> 
>> Thanks for your founding !
>> 
>> I think this is a more generic problem, but not just related to VXLAN ?
>> If we use SMC-R v2 and the netdevice is in a net namespace which is not
>> init_net, we should always fail, right ? If so, I'd prefer this to be a bugfix.
>
>Re-stating the above to be on the same page: the patch should be re-
>posted targeting the net tree, and including a suitable fixes tag.
>
>@Dust Li: please correct me if I misread you.

Right, this is exactly what I mean.

Best regards,
Dust

>
>Thanks,
>
>Paolo