This patch set enables user namespaces having CAP_NET_ADMIN to manage wiphy devices and create/destroy hwsim radios.
The first patch allows a caller from a non-initial user namespace to run privileged nl80211 phy/dev operations. The second patch enables hwsim radio management over Netlink from such namespaces. Together, with these patches an unprivileged test environment can create user/network namespaces and set up abitrary simulated wireless networks. Changes from v1: * Use a simple counter in hwsim to assign netgroups to net namespaces. * Store hwsim net_generic() data in a struct, add accessors. * On namespace exit, do not destroy hwsim radios originally created in the initial network namespace. Martin Willi (2): nl80211: Allow privileged operations from user namespaces mac80211_hwsim: Allow managing radios from non-initial namespaces drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4