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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-07-10 05:51:35 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-12 17:03:28 -0400
commit30ffee8480c13fbcf8ab6c28e31f79dfff683117 (patch)
treeca86e974221761b813811047286142804f906ee2 /net/core/rtnetlink.c
parent134e63756d5f3d0f7604dfcca847b09d1b14fd66 (diff)
net: move and export get_net_ns_by_pid
The function get_net_ns_by_pid(), to get a network namespace from a pid_t, will be required in cfg80211 as well. Therefore, let's move it to net_namespace.c and export it. We can't make it a static inline in the !NETNS case because it needs to verify that the given pid even exists (and return -ESRCH). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c21
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index d78030f88bd0..b44775f9f2bf 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
35#include <linux/security.h> 35#include <linux/security.h>
36#include <linux/mutex.h> 36#include <linux/mutex.h>
37#include <linux/if_addr.h> 37#include <linux/if_addr.h>
38#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
39 38
40#include <asm/uaccess.h> 39#include <asm/uaccess.h>
41#include <asm/system.h> 40#include <asm/system.h>
@@ -52,6 +51,7 @@
52#include <net/pkt_sched.h> 51#include <net/pkt_sched.h>
53#include <net/fib_rules.h> 52#include <net/fib_rules.h>
54#include <net/rtnetlink.h> 53#include <net/rtnetlink.h>
54#include <net/net_namespace.h>
55 55
56struct rtnl_link 56struct rtnl_link
57{ 57{
@@ -725,25 +725,6 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifla_info_policy[IFLA_INFO_MAX+1] = {
725 [IFLA_INFO_DATA] = { .type = NLA_NESTED }, 725 [IFLA_INFO_DATA] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
726}; 726};
727 727
728static struct net *get_net_ns_by_pid(pid_t pid)
729{
730 struct task_struct *tsk;
731 struct net *net;
732
733 /* Lookup the network namespace */
734 net = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
735 rcu_read_lock();
736 tsk = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
737 if (tsk) {
738 struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
739 nsproxy = task_nsproxy(tsk);
740 if (nsproxy)
741 net = get_net(nsproxy->net_ns);
742 }
743 rcu_read_unlock();
744 return net;
745}
746
747static int validate_linkmsg(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[]) 728static int validate_linkmsg(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[])
748{ 729{
749 if (dev) { 730 if (dev) {