From: Alexander Aring Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:45:35 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ieee802154: allow netns create of lowpan interface X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c5bf998b3dca0599a2cce885619ffc06fc594df;p=linux-beck.git ieee802154: allow netns create of lowpan interface This patch reverts commit f9d1ce8f81eb ("ieee802154: fix netns settings"). The lowpan interface need to be created inside the net namespace where the wpan interface is available. The wpan namespace can be changed only by nl802154 before. Without this patch it's not possible to create a lowpan interface for a wpan interface which isn't inside init_net namespace. Cc: Nicolas Dichtel Reviewed-by: Stefan Schmidt Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann --- diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c index 935ab932e841..d7efbf0dad20 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/core.c @@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ static int lowpan_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *ldev, pr_debug("adding new link\n"); - if (!tb[IFLA_LINK] || - !net_eq(dev_net(ldev), &init_net)) + if (!tb[IFLA_LINK]) return -EINVAL; /* find and hold wpan device */ wdev = dev_get_by_index(dev_net(ldev), nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_LINK]));