Hi, I have been trying to figure out how pid namespaces interact with netlink.
netlink uses pids (or really tids I hope?) to address sockets associated with processes. The netlink code passes around pids without caring much about the pid namespace. It does pass around some information about the network namespace, but that doesn't help here because the pid namespace is not necessarily related to the net namespace. When the netlink consumer runs in kernel (like rtnetlink) and happens to run in the same process context while receiving and processing the data it should do the right thing because it has the same pid namespace. If it runs in some other process that is not guaranteed and it may actually send the reply back to the wrong pid. When a process receives netlink in user space and it isn't in the same pid space as the sender it is unlikely that the reply gets back. Anything I'm missing here? Does netlink need to be extended? Or perhaps forbid passing netlink between name spaces? Thanks, -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
