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netlink: add IFLA_NET_NS to move interface to network namespace by nsid

PATCH In review Vivien Chappelier 1 participant 1 message Oct 28, 2008

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PATCH 5/6 netlink: add IFLA_NET_NS to move interface to network namespace by nsid

This corresponds exactly to IFLA_NET_NS_PID except it takes a nsid parameter instead of a pid.

---
 include/linux/if_link.h |    1 +
 net/core/rtnetlink.c    |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
include/linux/if_link.h +1 -0
index f9032c8..9e473eb 100644
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ enum
 #define IFLA_LINKINFO IFLA_LINKINFO
 	IFLA_NET_NS_PID,
 	IFLA_IFALIAS,
+	IFLA_NET_NS,
 	__IFLA_MAX
 };
net/core/rtnetlink.c +16 -0
index 31f29d2..3e90c0b 100644
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ const struct nla_policy ifla_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
 	[IFLA_LINKINFO]		= { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 	[IFLA_NET_NS_PID]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[IFLA_IFALIAS]	        = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = IFALIASZ-1 },
+	[IFLA_NET_NS]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
 
 static const struct nla_policy ifla_info_policy[IFLA_INFO_MAX+1] = {

@@ -779,6 +780,21 @@ static int do_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct ifinfomsg *ifm,
 		modified = 1;
 	}
 
+	if (tb[IFLA_NET_NS]) {
+		struct net *net;
+
+		net = __get_net_ns_by_id(nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_NET_NS]));
+		if (net == NULL) {
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto errout;
+		}
+		err = dev_change_net_namespace(dev, net, ifname);
+		put_net(net);
+		if (err)
+			goto errout;
+		modified = 1;
+	}
+
 	if (tb[IFLA_MAP]) {
 		struct rtnl_link_ifmap *u_map;
 		struct ifmap k_map;
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