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netlink: allow to listen "all" netns

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More accurately, listen all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns
where the netlink socket is opened.
For this purpose, a netlink socket option is added:
NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID. When this option is set on a netlink socket, this
socket will receive netlink notifications from all netns that have a nsid
assigned into the netns where the socket has been opened. The nsid is sent
to userland via an anscillary data.

With this patch, a daemon needs only one socket to listen many netns. This
is useful when the number of netns is high.

Because 0 is a valid value for a nsid, the field nsid_is_set indicates if
the field nsid is valid or not. skb->cb is initialized to 0 on skb
allocation, thus we are sure that we will never send a nsid 0 by error to
the userland.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-07 11:02:53 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent cc3a572fe6
commit 59324cf35a
5 changed files with 61 additions and 6 deletions
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include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
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@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct nlmsgerr {
#define NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS 5
#define NETLINK_RX_RING 6
#define NETLINK_TX_RING 7
#define NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID 8
struct nl_pktinfo {
__u32 group;