On 2/4/18 5:11 AM, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:17:01AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 14:29:04 +0100 >> Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> >>> +static int rtnl_ensure_unique_netns_attr(const struct sock *sk, >>> + struct nlattr *tb[], >>> + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) >>> +{ >>> + int ret = -EINVAL; >>> + struct net *net = NULL, *unique_net = NULL; >>> + >>> + /* Requests without network namespace ids have been able to specify >>> + * multiple properties referring to different network namespaces so >>> + * don't regress them. >>> + */ >>> + if (!tb[IFLA_IF_NETNSID]) >>> + return 0; >>> + >>> + if (!tb[IFLA_NET_NS_PID] && !tb[IFLA_NET_NS_FD]) >>> + return 0; >> >> Isn't this an error? > > My reasoning was that having no explicit network namespace identifying > attributes the caller operates on the current network namespace which is > uniquely identified.
agreed. those are not required attributes.