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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-09-12 13:02:17 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:49:09 -0700
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[NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol stack or a pseudo device. If a protocol stack that does not have support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly can get confused and do the wrong thing. To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on devices that are not in the initial network namespace. As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these checks can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c
index 4017696ada63..08b117e2c54b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ simeth_device_event(struct notifier_block *this,unsigned long event, void *ptr)
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
+ if (dev->nd_net != &init_net)
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
if ( event != NETDEV_UP && event != NETDEV_DOWN ) return NOTIFY_DONE;
/*