netdev - Re: disabling ipv6 (when ipv6 module is already loaded or built in)

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:19:15 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disabling ipv6 (when ipv6 module is already loaded or built in)

On Friday 25 of March 2011, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:53:06 +0100
> 
> > The whole problem is that socket(AF_INET6,...) is allowed. If setting
> > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 would also prevent such socket() from
> > succeeding then everything would be fine.
> 
> You have to make this setting before the module loads, once we register
> the protocol handlers (which is what allows socket() to succeed) the
> cat is out of the bag.
> 
> If even just one socket exists, we can't perform the steps necessary
> to block new ones.
> 
> That's why you have to use the module option, and it is the only way
> to block this class of operations.

Hm, maybe then it could be done in a way where ipv6 is initially built in but 
disabled and could be permanently enabled via sysfs/proc/something based on a 
userspace (or user/admin) decision runtime? That would be analogous to 
"modprobe ipv6" in kernel with modular ipv6.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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