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>
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 @@
[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 @@
*/
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 @@
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);