From c62cce2caee558e18aa05c01c2fd3b40f07174f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Vagin Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:29:13 -0700 Subject: net: add an ioctl to get a socket network namespace Each socket operates in a network namespace where it has been created, so if we want to dump and restore a socket, we have to know its network namespace. We have a socket_diag to get information about sockets, it doesn't report sockets which are not bound or connected. This patch introduces a new socket ioctl, which is called SIOCGSKNS and used to get a file descriptor for a socket network namespace. A task must have CAP_NET_ADMIN in a target network namespace to use this ioctl. Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/sockios.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h index 8e7890b26d9a..83cc54ce6081 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ #define SIOCWANDEV 0x894A /* get/set netdev parameters */ #define SIOCOUTQNSD 0x894B /* output queue size (not sent only) */ +#define SIOCGSKNS 0x894C /* get socket network namespace */ /* ARP cache control calls. */ /* 0x8950 - 0x8952 * obsolete calls, don't re-use */ -- cgit v1.2.3