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ipv6: Silence privacy extensions initialization
authorRomain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:59:18 +0000 (07:59 +0000)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:57:50 +0000 (10:57 -0400)
commitda3a3ee57bc3af9c5c89b62cf79c2117b22a5597
treed955c8a2f444997f444954b9b407a7c221185293
parent351a3535bb4008bf65fdc581f9413b59f51db9d6
ipv6: Silence privacy extensions initialization

commit 2fdc1c8093255f9da877d7b9ce3f46c2098377dc upstream.

When a network namespace is created (via CLONE_NEWNET), the loopback
interface is automatically added to the new namespace, triggering a
printk in ipv6_add_dev() if CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY is set.

This is problematic for applications which use CLONE_NEWNET as
part of a sandbox, like Chromium's suid sandbox or recent versions of
vsftpd. On a busy machine, it can lead to thousands of useless
"lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions" messages appearing in dmesg.

It's easy enough to check the status of privacy extensions via the
use_tempaddr sysctl, so just removing the printk seems like the most
sensible solution.

Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c