On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:53:57PM CET, xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com wrote: >>On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >>> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >>> >>> Currently, user may choose to move device that is used by mirred action >>> to another network namespace. That is wrong as the action still remains >>> in the original namespace and references non-existing ifindex. >> >>It is a pure display issue, the action itself should function well >>because we only use ifindex to lookup netdevice once and >>we save the netdevice pointer in action. >> >>If you really want to fix it, just tell iprout2 to display netnsid together >>with ifindex. > > It is not only display issue. I think it is wrong to let a netdevice
What's wrong with it? Is it mis-functioning? > dissapear from underneath the mirred action. You certainly cannot add an It disappears only because we don't display it properly, nothing else. > action mirred with device from another net namespace. So should we allow > that? On the other hand why linking a device to mirred action prevents it from moving to another netns? Also, device can be moved back too. I don't see anything wrong with it except displaying it.
