Eric W. Biederman says:
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Introduce possible_net_t
The current usage of write_pnet and read_pnet is a little laborious and
error prone as you only notice if you failed to include them if are
compiling with network namespaces enabled.
possible_net_t remedies that by using a type that is 0 bytes when
network namespaces are disabled and can only be read and written to with
read_pnet and write_pnet.
Aka less work and safer for the same effect.
I kill hold_net and release_net first as are they are haven't been used
since 2008 and are noise at the points where write_pnet and read_pnet
are used.
I have folded in Eric Dumazets suggestions to improve the killing of
hold_net and release net. And respon. I had to respin anyway as
there was enough changes elsewhere in the tree the previous version
of these patches did not quite apply cleanly.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>