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Matteo Croce 903818fbf9 netns: switch netns in the child when executing commands
'ip netns exec' changes the current netns just before executing a child
process, and restores it after forking. This is needed if we're running
in batch or do_all mode.
Some cleanups must be done both in the parent and in the child: the
parent must restore the previous netns, while the child must reset any
VRF association.
Unfortunately, if do_all is set, the VRF are not reset in the child, and
the spawned processes are started with the wrong VRF context. This can
be triggered with this script:

	# ip -b - <<-'EOF'
		link add type vrf table 100
		link set vrf0 up
		link add type dummy
		link set dummy0 vrf vrf0 up
		netns add ns1
	EOF
	# ip -all -b - <<-'EOF'
		vrf exec vrf0 true
		netns exec setsid -f sleep 1h
	EOF
	# ip vrf pids vrf0
	  314  sleep
	# ps 314
	  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
	  314 ?        Ss     0:00 sleep 1h

Refactor cmd_exec() and pass to it a function pointer which is called in
the child before the final exec. In the netns exec case the function just
resets the VRF and switches netns.

Doing it in the child is less error prone and safer, because the parent
environment is always kept unaltered.

After this refactor some utility functions became unused, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2019-06-20 14:30:41 -07:00
bash-completion tc: gred: support controlling RED flags 2018-11-24 07:11:36 -08:00
bridge bridge: mdb: restore text output format 2019-05-30 11:01:53 -07:00
devlink devlink: mnlg: Catch returned error value of dumpit commands 2019-06-12 08:43:14 -07:00
doc/actions doc: remove trailing whitespace 2018-12-19 12:02:38 -08:00
etc/iproute2 iproute2: Add support for a few routing protocols 2018-06-11 11:18:30 -07:00
examples examples: Remove cbq.init-v0.7.3 2018-12-18 10:52:35 -08:00
genl genl: remove dead code 2018-11-19 11:42:44 -08:00
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ip netns: switch netns in the child when executing commands 2019-06-20 14:30:41 -07:00
lib netns: switch netns in the child when executing commands 2019-06-20 14:30:41 -07:00
man Add support for configuring MACsec gcm-aes-256 cipher type. 2019-06-18 09:55:51 -07:00
misc ss: add option to print socket information on one line 2019-05-02 16:06:06 -07:00
netem doc: remove trailing whitespace 2018-12-19 12:02:38 -08:00
rdma rdma: update uapi headers 2019-05-18 06:38:39 -07:00
schema bridge: add json schema for bridge fdb show 2016-07-20 12:02:02 -07:00
tc tc: simple: don't hardcode the control action 2019-06-06 14:43:08 -07:00
testsuite Makefile: use make -C 2019-06-18 09:52:58 -07:00
tipc tipc: add link broadcast get 2019-03-26 16:09:16 -07:00
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README README: update libdb build dependency information 2018-05-01 19:29:03 -07:00
README.devel README: update location of git repositories, remove broken info link 2018-02-13 16:42:51 -08:00
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README.iproute2+tc doc: remove trailing whitespace 2018-12-19 12:02:38 -08:00
README.lnstat doc: remove trailing whitespace 2018-12-19 12:02:38 -08:00
configure configure: fix typo in check_xt_old_internal_h 2019-01-07 14:42:01 -08:00

README

This is a set of utilities for Linux networking.

Information:
    https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2

Download:
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/

Stable version repository:
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git

Development repository:
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git

How to compile this.
--------------------
1. libdbm

arpd needs to have the berkeleydb development libraries. For Debian
users this is the package with a name like libdbX.X-dev.
DBM_INCLUDE points to the directory with db_185.h which
is the include file used by arpd to get to the old format Berkeley
database routines.  Often this is in the db-devel package.

2. make

The makefile will automatically build a config.mk file which
contains definitions of libraries that may or may not be available
on the system such as: ATM, ELF, MNL, and SELINUX.

3. To make documentation, cd to doc/ directory , then
   look at start of Makefile and set correct values for
   PAGESIZE=a4		, ie: a4 , letter ...	(string)
   PAGESPERPAGE=2	, ie: 1 , 2 ...		(numeric)
   and make there. It assumes, that latex, dvips and psnup
   are in your path.

4. This package includes matching sanitized kernel headers because
   the build environment may not have up to date versions. See Makefile
   if you have special requirements and need to point at different
   kernel include files.

Stephen Hemminger
stephen@networkplumber.org

Alexey Kuznetsov
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru