Re: [PATCH 00/13] SCTP: Enable netns

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Aug 06 2012 - 16:47:31 EST


From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:50:46 -0700

> Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>> Hi Eric
>>
>> Associations are looked up by ports, but then verifyed by addresses.
>> Also, associations belong to sockets and simply validating the socket
>> namespace should be sufficient.
>
> True. Your set of patches isn't quite as likely to malfunction as it
> looked at first glance. It requires address reuse which happens accross
> namespaces but not too frequently.
>
> As for validating the socket namespace I agree that is the fix and my
> patchset winds up doing it.

FWIW I much prefer Eric's patch set, it was so significantly easier to
read and validate than Jan's.
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