Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] rtnetlink: request RTM_GETLINK by pid or fd

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Le 22/01/2018 Ã 23:06, Jiri Benc a ÃcritÂ:
[snip]
> Btw, we have one missing piece here: when an interface is moved to a
> name space that does not have netnsid attached, we want to find out
> where the interface was moved to. But there's currently no reliable way
> to do it. For veth, the other end can be used to get the netnsid (note
> that RTM_GETLINK will return the correct link netnsid even when the
> queried veth interface is in a different name space), for openvswitch,
> we can now use genetlink, etc., but using different ways for different
> interface types is not the best API ever and for standalone interfaces
> we have nothing. I'd like to see something added to uAPI to cover this
> in a generic way.
When a virtual interface moves to another netns, the netlink RTM_DELLINK message
contains the attribute IFLA_NEW_NETNSID, which identifies where the interface
moves. The nsid may be allocated if needed.
I don't know if it's acceptable to also allocate an nsid in case of a physical
interface.


Regards,
Nicolas