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

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:18:48 +0800
From:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] neigh: don't leak default parms to uninitial netns

On 06/20/2013 09:05 AM, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, we can make sure un-init net namespace can't do harm to default neigh parms,
it's enough.

> I don't see why you want to restrict this at all.
> 
> I'm not applying these patches, sorry.

You can just drop this one, are there some problems with the other 3 patches?
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