[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 23/59] net: Enable neighbor sysctls that is save for userns root

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jan 17 2022 - 22:23:37 EST


From: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8c8b7aa7fb0cf9e1cc9204e6bc6e1353b8393502 ]

Inside netns owned by non-init userns, sysctls about ARP/neighbor is
currently not visible and configurable.

For the attributes these sysctls correspond to, any modifications make
effects on the performance of networking(ARP, especilly) only in the
scope of netns, which does not affect other netns.

Actually, some tools via netlink can modify these attribute. iproute2 is
an example. see as follows:

$ unshare -ur -n
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/lo/retrans_time
cat: can't open '/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/lo/retrans_time': No such file
or directory
$ ip ntable show dev lo
inet arp_cache
dev lo
refcnt 1 reachable 19494 base_reachable 30000 retrans 1000
gc_stale 60000 delay_probe 5000 queue 101
app_probes 0 ucast_probes 3 mcast_probes 3
anycast_delay 1000 proxy_delay 800 proxy_queue 64 locktime 1000

inet6 ndisc_cache
dev lo
refcnt 1 reachable 42394 base_reachable 30000 retrans 1000
gc_stale 60000 delay_probe 5000 queue 101
app_probes 0 ucast_probes 3 mcast_probes 3
anycast_delay 1000 proxy_delay 800 proxy_queue 64 locktime 0
$ ip ntable change name arp_cache dev <if> retrans 2000
inet arp_cache
dev lo
refcnt 1 reachable 22917 base_reachable 30000 retrans 2000
gc_stale 60000 delay_probe 5000 queue 101
app_probes 0 ucast_probes 3 mcast_probes 3
anycast_delay 1000 proxy_delay 800 proxy_queue 64 locktime 1000

inet6 ndisc_cache
dev lo
refcnt 1 reachable 35524 base_reachable 30000 retrans 1000
gc_stale 60000 delay_probe 5000 queue 101
app_probes 0 ucast_probes 3 mcast_probes 3
anycast_delay 1000 proxy_delay 800 proxy_queue 64 locktime 0

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joanne Koong <joannekoong@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/neighbour.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 6233e9856016e..4c49e4ddabff7 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -3239,10 +3239,6 @@ int neigh_sysctl_register(struct net_device *dev, struct neigh_parms *p,
neigh_proc_base_reachable_time;
}

- /* Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users */
- if (neigh_parms_net(p)->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
- t->neigh_vars[0].procname = NULL;
-
switch (neigh_parms_family(p)) {
case AF_INET:
p_name = "ipv4";
--
2.34.1