[34-longterm 160/196] ipv6: Silence privacy extensions initialization

[Paul Gortmaker]

From: Romain Francoise <romain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
                   -------------------

commit 2fdc1c8093255f9da877d7b9ce3f46c2098377dc upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 844ffc5..34ad669 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -408,9 +408,6 @@ 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);
-- 
1.7.9.3

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/