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network: add netns_getifaddrs() implementation
This commit introduces my concept of a network namespace aware getifaddrs(), i.e. netns_getifaddrs(). This presupposes a kernel that carries my IF{L}A_TARGET_NETNSID patches: struct netns_ifaddrs { struct netns_ifaddrs *ifa_next; /* Can - but shouldn't be - NULL. */ char *ifa_name; /* This field is not present struct ifaddrs. */ int ifa_ifindex; unsigned ifa_flags; /* This field is not present struct ifaddrs. */ int ifa_mtu; /* This field is not present struct ifaddrs. */ int ifa_prefixlen; struct sockaddr *ifa_addr; struct sockaddr *ifa_netmask; union { struct sockaddr *ifu_broadaddr; struct sockaddr *ifu_dstaddr; } ifa_ifu; /* If you don't know what this is for don't touch it. */ void *ifa_data; }; which is a superset of struct ifaddrs. It contains additional information such as the mtu, ifindex of the interface and the prefix length of the address. Note that the field ordering is different. So don't get any ideas of using memcpy() to copy from an old struct ifaddrs into a struct netns_ifaddrs. int netns_getifaddrs(struct netns_ifaddrs **ifap, __s32 netns_id, bool *netnsid_aware) takes a network namespace identifier as argument which identifies the target network namespace. If successfull, i.e. netns_getifaddrs() returns 0, callers should check the bool *netnsid_aware return argument. If it is true then RTM_GET{ADDR,LINK} requests are fully netnsid aware. If it is false then they are not and the information returned in struct netns_ifaddrs does *not* contain correct information about the target network namespace identified by netnsid. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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