On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 14:42, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:29:33PM -0800, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > David Ahern and Nicolas Dichtel report that the handling of the netns id
> > 0 is incorrect for the BPF socket lookup helpers: rather than finding
> > the netns with id 0, it is resolving to the current netns. This renders
> > the netns_id 0 inaccessible.
> >
> > To fix this, adjust the API for the netns to treat all negative s32
> > values as a lookup in the current netns, while any values with a
> > positive value in the signed 32-bit integer space would result in a
> > lookup for a socket in the netns corresponding to that id. As before, if
> > the netns with that ID does not exist, no socket will be found.
> > Furthermore, if any bits are set in the upper 32-bits, then no socket
> > will be found.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <j...@wand.net.nz>
> ..
> > +/* Current network namespace */
> > +#define BPF_CURRENT_NETNS            (-1L)
>
> I was about to apply it, but then noticed that the name doesn't match
> the rest of the names.
> Could you rename it to BPF_F_CURRENT_NETNS ?

I skipped the F_ part since it's not really a flag, it's a value. I
can put it back though.

> Also reword the commit log so it's less misleading.

Can do.

Cheers,
Joe

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