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<title>selftests: drv-net: add userns devmem RX test</title>
<updated>2026-06-06T01:10:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Bobby Eshleman</name>
<email>bobbyeshleman@meta.com</email>
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<published>2026-06-03T01:37:32+00:00</published>
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Add userns_devmem.py, which mirrors nk_devmem.py but places the netkit
guest in a netns whose owning user_ns is non-init. ncdevmem is ran there
via nsenter so the bind-rx call is issued with creds that hold
CAP_NET_ADMIN only in the child user_ns.

Without the preceding GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM patch the test fails at
bind-rx with EPERM, but with the patch the transfer completes and tests
pass.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman &lt;bobbyeshleman@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602-nl-prov-v2-2-ad721142c641@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add userns_devmem.py, which mirrors nk_devmem.py but places the netkit
guest in a netns whose owning user_ns is non-init. ncdevmem is ran there
via nsenter so the bind-rx call is issued with creds that hold
CAP_NET_ADMIN only in the child user_ns.

Without the preceding GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM patch the test fails at
bind-rx with EPERM, but with the patch the transfer completes and tests
pass.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman &lt;bobbyeshleman@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602-nl-prov-v2-2-ad721142c641@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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