[lxc-devel] [Fwd: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] packet : remove init_net restriction]

[Daniel Lezcano]

FYI.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [PATCH net-2.6] packet : remove init_net restriction
Date: 	Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
To: 	daniel.lezcano at free.fr
CC: 	netdev at vger.kernel.org
References: 	<1271322674-21726-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano at free.fr>



From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:11:14 +0200

> The af_packet protocol is used by Perl to do ioctls as reported by
> Stephane Riviere:
> 
> "Net::RawIP relies on SIOCGIFADDR et SIOCGIFHWADDR to get the IP and MAC
> addresses of the network interface."
> 
> But in a new network namespace these ioctl fail because it is disabled for
> a namespace different from the init_net_ns.
> 
> These two lines should not be there as af_inet and af_packet are
> namespace aware since a long time now. I suppose we forget to remove these
> lines because we sent the af_packet first, before af_inet was supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
> Reported-by: Stephane Riviere <stephane.riviere at regis-dgac.net>

Applied, thanks!