There have been many people complaining about the inconsistent
behaviors of IPv4 and IPv6 devconf when creating new network
namespaces. Currently, for IPv4, we inherit all current settings
from init_net, but for IPv6 we reset all setting to default.
This patch introduces a new /proc file
/proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net to control the
behavior of whether to inhert sysctl current settings from init_net.
This file itself is only available in init_net.
As demonstrated below:
Initial setup in init_net:
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
2
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
1
Default value 0 (current behavior):
# ip netns del test
# ip netns add test
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
2
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
0
Set to 1 (inherit from init_net):
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
# ip netns del test
# ip netns add test
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
2
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
1
Set to 2 (reset to default):
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
# ip netns del test
# ip netns add test
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
0
# ip netns exec test cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/accept_dad
0
Set to a value out of range (invalid):
# echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# echo -1 > /proc/sys/net/core/devconf_inherit_init_net
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
Reported-by: Zhu Yanjun <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com>
Reported-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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