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Commit def81f69 authored by Ying Xue's avatar Ying Xue Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: fix topology server broken issue



When a new topology server is launched in a new namespace, its
listening socket is inserted into the "init ns" namespace's socket
hash table rather than the one owned by the new namespace. Although
the socket's namespace is forcedly changed to the new namespace later,
the socket is still stored in the socket hash table of "init ns"
namespace. When a client created in the new namespace connects
its own topology server, the connection is failed as its server's
socket could not be found from its own namespace's socket table.

If __sock_create() instead of original sock_create_kern() is used
to create the server's socket through specifying an expected namesapce,
the socket will be inserted into the specified namespace's socket
table, thereby avoiding to the topology server broken issue.

Fixes: 76100a8a ("tipc: fix netns refcnt leak")

Reported-by: default avatarErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4fce1482
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