On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:38:21AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > Le 30/05/2017 à 23:33, Flavio Leitner a écrit : > > Don't include netns id for notifications broadcasts when the > > socket and the skb are in the same netns because it will be > > an error which can't be distinguished from a peer netns failing > > to allocate an id. > I don't understand the problem. peernet2id() doesn't allocate ids, it only do > a > lookup. If you need an id for the current netns, you have to allocate one.
The issue is that if you query an interface on the same netns, the error is returned, then we cannot tell if the iface is on the same netns or if there was an error while allocating the ID and the iface is on another netns. > This patch changes the metadata exported to the userland and will break > existing > tools. It should not break because it changes only for interfaces on the same netns where there is no ID and that value wasn't exported until recently. -- Flavio
