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ipv6: Silence privacy extensions initialization 

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>
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Romain Francoise 2011-01-17 07:59:18 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 6aefc522a8
commit 2fdc1c8093
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@ -420,9 +420,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
dev->type == ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 ||
dev->type == ARPHRD_SIT ||
dev->type == ARPHRD_NONE) {
printk(KERN_INFO
"%s: Disabled Privacy Extensions\n",
dev->name);
ndev->cnf.use_tempaddr = -1;
} else {
in6_dev_hold(ndev);