ipv6: enable IFA_TARGET_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR
- Backwards Compatibility:
If userspace wants to determine whether ipv6 RTM_GETADDR requests
support the new IFA_TARGET_NETNSID property it should verify that the
reply includes the IFA_TARGET_NETNSID property. If it does not
userspace should assume that IFA_TARGET_NETNSID is not supported for
ipv6 RTM_GETADDR requests on this kernel.
- From what I gather from current userspace tools that make use of
RTM_GETADDR requests some of them pass down struct ifinfomsg when they
should actually pass down struct ifaddrmsg. To not break existing
tools that pass down the wrong struct we will do the same as for
RTM_GETLINK | NLM_F_DUMP requests and not error out when the
nlmsg_parse() fails.
- Security:
Callers must have CAP_NET_ADMIN in the owning user namespace of the
target network namespace.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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