netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] neigh: don't leak default parms to uninitial netns

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] neigh: don't leak default parms to uninitial
 netns

From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:06:47 +0800

> Only allow initial net namespace to get default parms
> through netlink.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>

Disallowing changes to the default neigh parms is fine, but there is no
reason to forbid seeing what default neigh parms will be used in a given
network namespace just because it isn't &init_net.

I don't see why you want to restrict this at all.

I'm not applying these patches, sorry.
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