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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arne Welzel <arne.welzel@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Opening /proc/<pid>/net/dev prevents network namespace from expiring
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:42:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200824074223.GA4133866@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEyJRx0Zd_jtH1JQCSYYrdc-YTa8yvtneaurUKXEKK32-kWfRA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:05:53PM +0200, Arne Welzel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as an unprivileged user one is able to keep network namespaces from
> expiring by opening /proc/<pid>/net/dev of other processes. I've previously
> put this on stackexchange [1] and then bugzilla [2]. That's been a while
> though, so posting here for a bit more visibility in case it's something
> that's worth fixing.

The proper place to send networking bugs/issues is to the networking
developers themselves, at netdev@vger.kernel.org.

Try sending it there, no kernel developers use stackexchange for
development :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-24  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-22 21:05 Opening /proc/<pid>/net/dev prevents network namespace from expiring Arne Welzel
2020-08-24  7:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-08-24 16:53 ` Grant Taylor

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