From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: scofeldm@cisco•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, chrisw@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:53:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004221253.11290.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421.235236.69366636.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thursday 22 April 2010, David Miller wrote:
> From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco•com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:18:07 -0700
>
> > + if (tb[IOV_ATTR_VF_IFNAME])
> > + vf_dev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net,
> > + nla_data(tb[IOV_ATTR_VF_IFNAME]));
>
> It's probably best to check this for NULL and notify
> the user with an error in that case (don't forget to
> put 'dev' in that error path :-)
Since you brought up that hunk: shouldn't the namespace better
be current->nsproxy->net_ns instead of init_ns? If the sender
is confined in a separate network namespace, I would expect
that it should be able to modify devices in its own namespace
but none that are in the root namespace.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 19:18 [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support Scott Feldman
2010-04-20 13:48 ` [net-next,1/2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 14:34 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 14:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 15:22 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 16:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 20:26 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 13:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 16:28 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 18:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 19:56 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 11:42 ` Selective MD5 Checksum Failuers Bijay Singh
2010-04-21 16:18 ` [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support Chris Wright
2010-04-21 17:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 18:10 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 19:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 20:25 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 21:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 22:48 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 6:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 17:47 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 18:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 19:02 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 19:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 21:03 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 23:54 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 12:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 7:09 ` David Miller
2010-04-21 22:18 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 0:01 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 6:48 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] " David Miller
2010-04-22 21:23 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 23:04 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 23:16 ` eSwitch management Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 0:47 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23 1:29 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23 5:57 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-23 16:23 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 19:00 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 19:44 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 21:08 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 23:04 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-24 6:21 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-22 6:52 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support David Miller
2010-04-22 10:53 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-04-22 10:56 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 2/2] add enic iovnl ops for dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic " Chris Wright
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