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Patrick McHardy 8153a10c08 ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses
commit 8ec1e0ebe26087bfc5c0394ada5feb5758014fc8
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 12:16:35 2009 +0100

    ipv4: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses

    Change fib_validate_source() to accept packets with a local source address when
    the "accept_local" sysctl is set for the incoming inet device. Combined with the
    previous patches, this allows to communicate between multiple local interfaces
    over the wire.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 12:14:38 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman a5ee155136 net: NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET -> NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH
The motivation for an additional notifier in batched netdevice
notification (rt_do_flush) only needs to be called once per batch not
once per namespace.

For further batching improvements I need a guarantee that the
netdevices are unregistered in order allowing me to unregister an all
of the network devices in a network namespace at the same time with
the guarantee that the loopback device is really and truly
unregistered last.

Additionally it appears that we moved the route cache flush after
the final synchronize_net, which seems wrong and there was no
explanation.  So I have restored the original location of the final
synchronize_net.

Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-01 16:15:50 -08:00
Octavian Purdila e2ce146848 ipv4: factorize cache clearing for batched unregister operations
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 05:03:07 -08:00
David S. Miller 230f9bb701 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c

All CDC ethernet devices of type USB_CLASS_COMM need to use
'&mbm_info'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-06 00:55:55 -08:00
jamal b0c110ca8e net: Fix RPF to work with policy routing
Policy routing is not looked up by mark on reverse path filtering.
This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 22:49:12 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 16c6cf8bb4 ipv4: fib table algorithm performance improvement
The FIB algorithim for IPV4 is set at compile time, but kernel goes through
the overhead of function call indirection at runtime. Save some
cycles by turning the indirect calls to direct calls to either
hash or trie code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-05 00:21:56 -07:00
Rami Rosen d23a9b5baa ipv4: cleanup: remove unnecessary include.
There is no need for net/icmp.h header in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c.
This patch removes the #include net/icmp.h from it.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 15:16:38 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger c1cf8422f0 ip: add loose reverse path filtering
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).

For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
and 2 for loose mode.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
Jianjun Kong 6ed2533e55 net: clean up net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c fib_hash.c ip_gre.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 00:25:16 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 76e6ebfb40 netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05 19:00:44 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Thomas Graf 1f9d11c7c9 route: Mark unused routing attributes as such
Also removes an unused policy entry for an attribute which is
only used in kernel->user direction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03 16:36:27 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 3b1e0a655f [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set()
and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:55 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Denis V. Lunev 4814bdbd59 [NETNS]: Lookup in FIB semantic hashes taking into account the namespace.
The namespace is not available in the fib_sync_down_addr, add it as a
parameter.

Looking up a device by the pointer to it is OK. Looking up using a
result from fib_trie/fib_hash table lookup is also safe. No need to
fix that at all.  So, just fix lookup by address and insertion to the
hash table path.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:28:41 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 85326fa54b [IPV4]: fib_sync_down rework.
fib_sync_down can be called with an address and with a device. In
reality it is called either with address OR with a device. The
codepath inside is completely different, so lets separate it into two
calls for these two cases.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:28:39 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev dce5cbeec3 [IPV4]: Fix memory leak on error path during FIB initialization.
net->ipv4.fib_table_hash is not freed when fib4_rules_init failed.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:28:37 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 1ab352768f [NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_dev_find.
in_dev_find() need a namespace to pass it to fib_get_table(), so add
an argument.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:04 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 010278ec4c [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to fib_select_default.
Currently fib_select_default calls fib_get_table() with the
init_net. Prepare it to provide a correct namespace to lookup default
route.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:03 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 64c2d53829 [IPV4]: Consolidate fib_select_default.
The difference in the implementation of the fib_select_default when
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is (not) defined looks
negligible. Consolidate it and place into fib_frontend.c.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:02 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 5b707aaae4 [NETNS]: Pass correct namespace in fib_validate_source.
Correct network namespace is available inside fib_validate_source. It
can be obtained from the device passed in. The device is not NULL as
in_device is obtained from it just above.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:21 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev da0e28cb68 [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to fib_lookup.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:19 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt 1e637c74b0 [IPV4]: Enable use of 240/4 address space.
This short patch modifies the IPv4 networking to enable use of the
240.0.0.0/4 (aka "class-E") address space as propsed in the internet
draft draft-fuller-240space-00.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:44 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 775516bfa2 [NETNS]: Namespace stop vs 'ip r l' race.
During network namespace stop process kernel side netlink sockets
belonging to a namespace should be closed. They should not prevent
namespace to stop, so they do not increment namespace usage
counter. Though this counter will be put during last sock_put.

The raplacement of the correct netns for init_ns solves the problem
only partial as socket to be stoped until proper stop is a valid
netlink kernel socket and can be looked up by the user processes. This
is not a problem until it resides in initial namespace (no processes
inside this net), but this is not true for init_net.

So, hold the referrence for a socket, remove it from lookup tables and
only after that change namespace and perform a last put.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:08 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev b7c6ba6eb1 [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just
let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal
inside a namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:07 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 4f84d82f7a [NETNS]: Memory leak on network namespace stop.
Network namespace allocates 2 kernel netlink sockets, fibnl &
rtnl. These sockets should be disposed properly, i.e. by
sock_release. Plain sock_put is not enough.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:06 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 7f9b80529b [IPV4]: fib hash|trie initialization
Initialization of the slab cache's should be done when IP is
initialized to make sure of available memory, and that code can be
marked __init.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:15 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger a6db901092 [IPV4] FIB: printk related cleanups
printk related cleanups:
 * Get rid of unused printk wrappers.
 * Make bug checks into KERN_WARNING because KERN_DEBUG gets ignored
 * Turn one cryptic old message into something real
 * Make sure all messages have KERN_XXX

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:55 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 8cced9eff1 [NETNS]: Enable routing configuration in non-initial namespace.
I.e. remove the net != &init_net checks from the places, that now can
handle other-than-init net namespace.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:35 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 226b0b4a51 [NETNS]: Replace init_net with the correct context in fib_frontend.c
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:34 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 1bad118a33 [NETNS]: Pass namespace through ip_rt_ioctl.
... up to rtentry_to_fib_config

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:34 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 4b5d47d4d3 [NETNS]: Correctly fill fib_config data.
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:33 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 6bd48fcf73 [NETNS]: Provide correct namespace for fibnl netlink socket.
This patch makes the netlink socket to be per namespace. That allows
to have each namespace its own socket for routing queries.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:32 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev e4aef8aea3 [NETNS]: Place fib tables into netns.
The preparatory work has been done. All we need is to substitute
fib_table_hash with net->ipv4.fib_table_hash. Netns context is
available when required.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:31 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 4d1169c1e7 [NETNS]: Add netns to nl_info structure.
nl_info is used to track the end-user destination of routing change
notification. This is a natural object to hold a namespace on. Place
it there and utilize the context in the appropriate places.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6b175b26c1 [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to inet_(dev_)add_type.
The patch extends the inet_addr_type and inet_dev_addr_type with the
network namespace pointer. That allows to access the different tables
relatively to the network namespace.

The modification of the signature function is reported in all the
callers of the inet_addr_type using the pointer to the well known
init_net.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:27 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 8ad4942cd5 [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to fib_get_table/fib_new_table.
This patch extends the fib_get_table and the fib_new_table functions
with the network namespace pointer. That will allow to access the
table relatively from the network namespace.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:27 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 93456b6d77 [IPV4]: Unify access to the routing tables.
Replace the direct pointers to local and main tables with
calls to fib_get_table() with appropriate argument.

This doesn't introduce additional dereferences, but makes the access to fib
tables uniform in any (CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES) case.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:26 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 7b1a74fdbb [NETNS]: Refactor fib initialization so it can handle multiple namespaces.
This patch makes the fib to be initialized as a subsystem for the
network namespaces. The code does not handle several namespaces yet,
so in case of a creation of a network namespace, the
creation/initialization will not occur.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:25 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev dbb50165b5 [IPV4]: Check fib4_rules_init failure.
This adds error paths into both versions of fib4_rules_init
(with/without CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES) and returns error code to the
caller.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:25 -08:00
Joe Perches f97c1e0c6e [IPV4] net/ipv4: Use ipv4_is_<type>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:15 -08:00
Laszlo Attila Toth 0553811612 [IPV4]: Add inet_dev_addr_type()
Address type search can be limited to an interface by
inet_dev_addr_type function.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:56 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev b854272b3c [NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need
to be certain that something won't break.  So this patch deliberately
disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the
initial network namespace.  After the methods have been audited this
extra check can be disabled.

Changes from v1:
- added IPv6 addrlabel protection

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-28 14:54:24 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev d883a03671 [IPV4]: OOPS with NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP netlink socket
[ Regression added by changeset:
	cd40b7d398
	[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
  -DaveM ]

nl_fib_input re-reuses incoming skb to send the reply. This means that this
packet will be freed twice, namely in:
- netlink_unicast_kernel
- on receive path
Use clone to send as a cure, the caller is responsible for kfree_skb on error.

Thanks to Alexey Dobryan, who originally found the problem.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-21 02:01:53 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov c3e9a353d8 [IPV4]: Compact some ifdefs in the fib code.
There are places that check for CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
twice in the same file, but the internals of these #ifdefs
can be merged.

As a side effect - remove one ifdef from inside a function.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:11:41 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 03cf786c4e [IPV4]: Explicitly call fib_get_table() in fib_frontend.c
In case the "multiple tables" config option is y, the ip_fib_local_table
is not a variable, but a macro, that calls fib_get_table(RT_TABLE_LOCAL).

Some code uses this "variable" *3* times in one place, thus implicitly
making 3 calls. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23 21:27:58 -07:00
David S. Miller 28f7b0360f [NETLINK]: fib_frontend build fixes
1) fibnl needs to be declared outside of config ifdefs,
   and also should not be explicitly initialized to NULL
2) nl_fib_input() args are wrong for netlink_kernel_create()
   input method

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:32:39 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
user.

Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
may occur in the arbitrary process context.

This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
processing right in the netlink_unicast.

Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Thomas Graf 8f4c1f9b04 [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00