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SubjectRe: Retrieving the network namespace of a socket
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:34 PM Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 05:03:56PM +0300, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:57 PM Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> wrote:
>>> I'm working on a problem where I need to determine which network namespace a
>>> given socket is in. I can currently bruteforce this by using INET_DIAG, and
>>> enumerating namespaces and working backwards.
>>
>> Namespace is not a per-socket, but a per-process attribute. So each
>> socket of a process belongs to the same namespace.
>>
> > Could you elaborate what kind of problem you are trying to solve?
>> Maybe there is a more simple solution. for it.
>
> That's not entirely true. See the folowing code:
>
> int main() {
> int fd1, fd2;
> fd1 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> assert(fd1 >= 0);
> assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) == 0);
> fd2 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> assert(fd2 >= 0);
> }
>
> fd1 and fd2 have different sock_net.

Ouch, I totally missed this case. Thank you for reminding me.

--
Sergey

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