netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv4: Add support to disable icmp timestamp

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 16:07:40 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Weilong Chen <chenweilong@...wei.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv4: Add support to disable icmp timestamp

Weilong Chen <chenweilong@...wei.com> wrote:
> The remote host answers to an ICMP timestamp request.
> This allows an attacker to know the time and date on your host.

No, it does not, I already told you so in V1 :-/

If you really think that its a problem that one can discover
milliseconds-since-midnight please just change inet_current_timestamp()
to add a random offset instead of adding yet another sysctl.