Re: [PATCH bpf 1/4] net: add SO_NETNS_COOKIE socket option

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On 2/10/21 1:04 PM, Lorenz Bauer wrote:
> We need to distinguish which network namespace a socket belongs to.
> BPF has the useful bpf_get_netns_cookie helper for this, but accessing
> it from user space isn't possible. Add a read-only socket option that
> returns the netns cookie, similar to SO_COOKIE. If network namespaces
> are disabled, SO_NETNS_COOKIE returns the cookie of init_net.
> 
> The BPF helpers change slightly: instead of returning 0 when network
> namespaces are disabled we return the init_net cookie as for the
> socket option.
> 
> Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

...

>  
> +static inline u64 __sock_gen_netns_cookie(struct sock *sk)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
> +	return __net_gen_cookie(sk->sk_net.net);
> +#else
> +	return __net_gen_cookie(&init_net);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +static inline u64 sock_gen_netns_cookie(struct sock *sk)
> +{
> +	u64 cookie;
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	cookie = __sock_gen_netns_cookie(sk);
> +	preempt_enable();
> +
> +	return cookie;
> +}
> +
> 

I suggest we make net->net_cookie a mere u64 initialized in setup_net(),
instead of having to preempt_disable() around reading it.

(Here and in your patch 2/4)

Your patches would be much simpler.

Cleanup patch :

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210210144144.24284-1-eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx/





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