Re: Retrieving the network namespace of a socket

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 05:03:56PM +0300, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:

Hello Sargun,

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:57 PM Sargun Dhillon [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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.

-- 
Sergey

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.

The context for this is:
https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/932/

We need to figure out, for a given socket, if it has reachability to a given IP.