On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 17:36, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 03:32:20PM -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 (including u64 values which when
> > truncated to s32 become negative), 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. Any netns outside
> > of these ranges will fail to find a corresponding socket, as those
> > values are reserved for future usage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <j...@wand.net.nz>
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
>
> Applied both. Thanks everyone.
>
> Joe, please provide a cover letter 0/N next time for the series
> or if they're really separate patches submit them one by one.

OK thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

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