linux/net/core
Eric W. Biederman 426b5303eb [NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network namespaces
I'm actually surprised at how much was involved.  At first glance it
appears that the neighbour table data structures are already split by
network device so all that should be needed is to modify the user
interface commands to filter the set of neighbours by the network
namespace of their devices.

However a couple things turned up while I was reading through the
code.  The proxy neighbour table allows entries with no network
device, and the neighbour parms are per network device (except for the
defaults) so they now need a per network namespace default.

So I updated the two structures (which surprised me) with their very
own network namespace parameter.  Updated the relevant lookup and
destroy routines with a network namespace parameter and modified the
code that interacts with users to filter out neighbour table entries
for devices of other namespaces.

I'm a little concerned that we can modify and display the global table
configuration and from all network namespaces.  But this appears good
enough for now.

I keep thinking modifying the neighbour table to have per network
namespace instances of each table type would should be cleaner.  The
hash table is already dynamically sized so there are it is not a
limiter.  The default parameter would be straight forward to take care
of.  However when I look at the how the network table is built and
used I still find some assumptions that there is only a single
neighbour table for each type of table in the kernel.  The netlink
operations, neigh_seq_start, the non-core network users that call
neigh_lookup.  So while it might be doable it would require more
refactoring than my current approach of just doing a little extra
filtering in the code.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:03 -08:00
..
datagram.c [UDP]: Only increment counter on first peek/recv 2008-01-28 14:56:34 -08:00
dev_mcast.c [NET]: Consolidate net namespace related proc files creation. 2008-01-28 14:54:28 -08:00
dev.c [NET]: Check RTNL status in unregister_netdevice 2008-01-28 14:57:43 -08:00
dst.c [NET]: dst_ifdown() cleanup 2008-01-28 14:57:05 -08:00
ethtool.c [ETHTOOL] Provide default behaviors for a few ethtool sub-ioctls 2007-10-10 16:51:17 -07:00
fib_rules.c [IPV6]: Make fib6_rules_init to return an error code. 2008-01-28 14:56:46 -08:00
filter.c [NET]: Fix bug in sk_filter race cures. 2007-10-18 21:48:39 -07:00
flow.c [NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timer 2008-01-28 14:53:35 -08:00
gen_estimator.c remove asm/bitops.h includes 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
gen_stats.c [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t 2007-04-25 22:26:28 -07:00
iovec.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
kmap_skb.h [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h 2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
link_watch.c [NET] link_watch: Always schedule urgent events 2007-05-10 23:45:28 -07:00
Makefile [NET]: Fix running without sysfs 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
neighbour.c [NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network namespaces 2008-01-28 15:00:03 -08:00
net_namespace.c [NET]: Make netns cleanup to run in a separate queue 2008-01-28 14:54:35 -08:00
net-sysfs.c [NET]: Nicer WARN_ON in netstat_show 2008-01-28 14:55:10 -08:00
net-sysfs.h [NET]: Remove in-code externs for some functions from net/core/dev.c 2007-10-23 21:27:56 -07:00
netevent.c [NET]: net/core/netevent.c should #include <net/netevent.h> 2007-07-05 17:40:27 -07:00
netpoll.c [IPV4] net/core: Use ipv4_is_<type> 2008-01-28 14:58:15 -08:00
pktgen.c [IPV4] net/core: Use ipv4_is_<type> 2008-01-28 14:58:15 -08:00
request_sock.c [NET] net/core/request_sock.c: Remove unused exports. 2008-01-28 14:54:33 -08:00
rtnetlink.c [NET]: Make the netlink methods in rtnetlink handle multiple network namespaces 2008-01-28 14:54:26 -08:00
scm.c [NET]: Fix function put_cmsg() which may cause usr application memory overflow 2007-12-20 14:36:44 -08:00
skbuff.c [TCP]: Splice receive support. 2008-01-28 14:53:31 -08:00
sock.c [NET]: Name magic constants in sock_wake_async() 2008-01-28 14:55:03 -08:00
stream.c [NET]: Name magic constants in sock_wake_async() 2008-01-28 14:55:03 -08:00
sysctl_net_core.c [NET] sysctl: make sysctl_somaxconn per-namespace 2008-01-28 14:56:57 -08:00
user_dma.c [NET]: Revert sk_buff walker cleanups. 2007-04-27 15:21:23 -07:00
utils.c [NET]: Move netfilter checksum helpers to net/core/utils.c 2008-01-28 14:55:14 -08:00