Re: [PATCH net 1/1 v1] rtnetlink: require unique netns identifier

From: David Ahern
Date: Sun Feb 04 2018 - 12:21:42 EST


On 2/4/18 5:11 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:17:01AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 14:29:04 +0100
>> Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> +static int rtnl_ensure_unique_netns_attr(const struct sock *sk,
>>> + struct nlattr *tb[],
>>> + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>> +{
>>> + int ret = -EINVAL;
>>> + struct net *net = NULL, *unique_net = NULL;
>>> +
>>> + /* Requests without network namespace ids have been able to specify
>>> + * multiple properties referring to different network namespaces so
>>> + * don't regress them.
>>> + */
>>> + if (!tb[IFLA_IF_NETNSID])
>>> + return 0;
>>> +
>>> + if (!tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID] && !tb[IFLA_NET_NS_FD])
>>> + return 0;
>>
>> Isn't this an error?
>
> My reasoning was that having no explicit network namespace identifying
> attributes the caller operates on the current network namespace which is
> uniquely identified.

agreed. those are not required attributes.