netlink: allow to listen "all" netns
More accurately, listen all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns
where the netlink socket is opened.
For this purpose, a netlink socket option is added:
NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID. When this option is set on a netlink socket, this
socket will receive netlink notifications from all netns that have a nsid
assigned into the netns where the socket has been opened. The nsid is sent
to userland via an anscillary data.
With this patch, a daemon needs only one socket to listen many netns. This
is useful when the number of netns is high.
Because 0 is a valid value for a nsid, the field nsid_is_set indicates if
the field nsid is valid or not. skb->cb is initialized to 0 on skb
allocation, thus we are sure that we will never send a nsid 0 by error to
the userland.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index ae5008b..a665bf4 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(peernet2id_alloc);
/* This function returns, if assigned, the id of a peer netns. */
-static int peernet2id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
+int peernet2id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
{
unsigned long flags;
int id;
@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@
return id;
}
+/* This function returns true is the peer netns has an id assigned into the
+ * current netns.
+ */
+bool peernet_has_id(struct net *net, struct net *peer)
+{
+ return peernet2id(net, peer) >= 0;
+}
+
struct net *get_net_ns_by_id(struct net *net, int id)
{
unsigned long flags;