Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:49:34AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> @@ -406,7 +404,7 @@ int nf_ct_expect_related(struct nf_conntrack_expect *expect)
>>> }
>>> }
>>> - if (nf_ct_expect_count >= nf_ct_expect_max) {
>>> + if (net->ct.expect_count >= nf_ct_expect_max) {
>>> if (net_ratelimit())
>>> printk(KERN_WARNING
>>> "nf_conntrack: expectation table full\n");
>> I assume these message are globally visible even with namespaces?
>> Can we make this (and the corresponding ct hash message) refer to
>> the namespace? Otherwise it might be a bit confusing.
>
> This is somewhat peculiar situation.
>
> netns doesn't have unique ID like, say, ifindex.
>
> The only number related to netns is "struct net *". They can be
> distinguised by pointer value, but userspace when does clone(CLONE_NEWNET)
> do not, obviously, control it and after creation doesn't have a way to find
> it out.
>
> And if we print with "%p, net" kernelspace pointer get exposed which is
> not nice.
No, that also wouldn't solve the confusion. I guess conntrack is not
the only subsystem which prints netns related messages, so how about
adding an unique identifier that can be associated by userspace?
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