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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-05-04 17:51:50 -0700
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-05-10 14:36:03 -0700
commitf063052947f770845a6252f7fa24f6f624592a24 (patch)
tree17513dbd49d5a1a08443d76374d10dda6114b7a7 /net/core/rtnetlink.c
parenta00eaf11a223c63fbb212369d6db69ce4c55a2d1 (diff)
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net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
Take advantage of the new abstraction and allow network devices to be placed in any network namespace that we have a fd to talk about. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index d7c4bb4..dca9602 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1043,6 +1043,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
[IFLA_LINKMODE] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
[IFLA_LINKINFO] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
[IFLA_NET_NS_PID] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [IFLA_NET_NS_FD] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[IFLA_IFALIAS] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = IFALIASZ-1 },
[IFLA_VFINFO_LIST] = {. type = NLA_NESTED },
[IFLA_VF_PORTS] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
@@ -1091,6 +1092,8 @@ struct net *rtnl_link_get_net(struct net *src_net, struct nlattr *tb[])
*/
if (tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID])
net = get_net_ns_by_pid(nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID]));
+ else if (tb[IFLA_NET_NS_FD])
+ net = get_net_ns_by_fd(nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_NET_NS_FD]));
else
net = get_net(src_net);
return net;
@@ -1221,7 +1224,7 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
int send_addr_notify = 0;
int err;
- if (tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID]) {
+ if (tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID] || tb[IFLA_NET_NS_FD]) {
struct net *net = rtnl_link_get_net(dev_net(dev), tb);
if (IS_ERR(net)) {
err = PTR_ERR(net);
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