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authorJohn Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>2012-12-09 20:48:13 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-12-10 14:09:01 -0500
commit7c77ab24e30bad7598b5cfda93be6f32ed439c2f (patch)
treef806a2e6f510d5e206e3bb85cb8732a310a4ea09 /net
parent7b9e75802f1c50bfeae53c86c0bfbc5c45fd8719 (diff)
downloadlinux-7c77ab24e30bad7598b5cfda93be6f32ed439c2f.tar.bz2
net: Allow DCBnl to use other namespaces besides init_net
Allow DCB and net namespace to work together. This is useful if you have containers that are bound to 'phys' interfaces that want to also manage their DCB attributes. The net namespace is taken from sock_net(skb->sk) of the netlink skb. CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/dcb/dcbnl.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
index b07c75d37e91..1b588e23cf80 100644
--- a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
+++ b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
@@ -1665,9 +1665,6 @@ static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
if ((nlh->nlmsg_type == RTM_SETDCB) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
- if (!net_eq(net, &init_net))
- return -EINVAL;
-
ret = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*dcb), tb, DCB_ATTR_MAX,
dcbnl_rtnl_policy);
if (ret < 0)
@@ -1684,7 +1681,7 @@ static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
if (!tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME])
return -EINVAL;
- netdev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, nla_data(tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME]));
+ netdev = dev_get_by_name(net, nla_data(tb[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME]));
if (!netdev)
return -ENODEV;
@@ -1708,7 +1705,7 @@ static int dcb_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
nlmsg_end(reply_skb, reply_nlh);
- ret = rtnl_unicast(reply_skb, &init_net, portid);
+ ret = rtnl_unicast(reply_skb, net, portid);
out:
dev_put(netdev);
return ret;