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Commit 8c8b7aa7 authored by xu xin's avatar xu xin Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Enable neighbor sysctls that is save for userns root



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: default avatarZeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarxu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: default avatarJoanne Koong <joannekoong@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 77ab714f
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