From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:20:16 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Merge branch 'netns'
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Merge branch 'netns'

Nicolas Dichtel says:

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netns: audit netdevice creation with IFLA_NET_NS_[PID|FD]

When one of these attributes is set, the netdevice is created into the netns
pointed by IFLA_NET_NS_[PID|FD] (see the call to rtnl_create_link() in
rtnl_newlink()). Let's call this netns the dest_net. After this creation, if the
newlink handler exists, it is called with a netns argument that points to the
netns where the netlink message has been received (called src_net in the code)
which is the link netns.
Hence, with one of these attributes, it's possible to create a x-netns
netdevice.

Here is the result of my code review:
- all ip tunnels (sit, ipip, ip6_tunnels, gre[tap][v6], ip_vti[6]) does not
  really allows to use this feature: the netdevice is created in the dest_net
  and the src_net is completely ignored in the newlink handler.
- VLAN properly handles this x-netns creation.
- bridge ignores src_net, which seems fine (NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL is set).
- CAIF subsystem is not clear for me (I don't know how it works), but it seems
  to wrongly use src_net. Patch #1 tries to fix this, but it was done only by
  code review (and only compile-tested), so please carefully review it. I may
  miss something.
- HSR subsystem uses src_net to parse IFLA_HSR_SLAVE[1|2], but the netdevice has
  the flag NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL, so the question is: does this netdevice really
  supports x-netns? If not, the newlink handler should use the dest_net instead
  of src_net, I can provide the patch.
- ieee802154 uses also src_net and does not have NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL. Same
  question: does this netdevice really supports x-netns?
- bonding ignores src_net and flag NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL is set, ie x-netns is not
  supported. Fine.
- CAN does not support rtnl/newlink, ok.
- ipvlan uses src_net and does not have NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL. After looking at
  the code, it seems that this drivers support x-netns. Am I right?
- macvlan/macvtap uses src_net and seems to have x-netns support.
- team ignores src_net and has the flag NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL, ie x-netns is not
  supported. Ok.
- veth uses src_net and have x-netns support ;-) Ok.
- VXLAN didn't properly handle this. The link netns (vxlan->net) is the src_net
  and not dest_net (see patch #2). Note that it was already possible to create a
  x-netns vxlan before the commit f01ec1c017de ("vxlan: add x-netns support")
  but the nedevice remains broken.

To summarize:
 - CAIF patch must be carefully reviewed
 - for HSR, ieee802154, ipvlan: is x-netns supported?
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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