[NETNS]: The generic per-net pointers.

Add the elastic array of void * pointer to the struct net.
The access rules are simple:

 1. register the ops with register_pernet_gen_device to get
    the id of your private pointer
 2. call net_assign_generic() to put the private data on the
    struct net (most preferably this should be done in the
    ->init callback of the ops registered)
 3. do not store any private reference on the net_generic array;
 4. do not change this pointer while the net is alive;
 5. use the net_generic() to get the pointer.

When adding a new pointer, I copy the old array, replace it
with a new one and schedule the old for kfree after an RCU
grace period.

Since the net_generic explores the net->gen array inside rcu
read section and once set the net->gen->ptr[x] pointer never 
changes, this grants us a safe access to generic pointers.

Quoting Paul: "... RCU is protecting -only- the net_generic 
structure that net_generic() is traversing, and the [pointer]
returned by net_generic() is protected by a reference counter 
in the upper-level struct net."

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 72fad1a0956..f880b0f9f10 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry;
 struct net_device;
 struct sock;
 struct ctl_table_header;
+struct net_generic;
 
 struct net {
 	atomic_t		count;		/* To decided when the network
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ struct net {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER
 	struct netns_xt		xt;
 #endif
+	struct net_generic	*gen;
 };