From 1c4f0197323254e463b642abf2c8361e2a924859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:11:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] packet : remove init_net restriction The af_packet protocol is used by Perl to do ioctls as reported by Stephane Riviere: "Net::RawIP relies on SIOCGIFADDR et SIOCGIFHWADDR to get the IP and MAC addresses of the network interface." But in a new network namespace these ioctl fail because it is disabled for a namespace different from the init_net_ns. These two lines should not be there as af_inet and af_packet are namespace aware since a long time now. I suppose we forget to remove these lines because we sent the af_packet first, before af_inet was supported. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Reported-by: Stephane Riviere Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index cc90363d7e7a..243946d4809d 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -2169,8 +2169,6 @@ static int packet_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, case SIOCGIFDSTADDR: case SIOCSIFDSTADDR: case SIOCSIFFLAGS: - if (!net_eq(sock_net(sk), &init_net)) - return -ENOIOCTLCMD; return inet_dgram_ops.ioctl(sock, cmd, arg); #endif