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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter•org>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse•cz>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole•kfki.hu>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn•net>,
	coreteam@netfilter•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	bridge@lists•linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespaces
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 11:57:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160512095726.GA1975@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160428074838.0BBB5A0C94@unicorn.suse.cz>

Hi Michal,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:48:02PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Commit 69b34fb996b2 ("netfilter: xt_LOG: add net namespace support for
> xt_LOG") disabled logging packets using the LOG target from non-init
> namespaces. The motivation was to prevent containers from flooding
> kernel log of the host. The plan was to keep it that way until syslog
> namespace implementation allows containers to log in a safe way.
> 
> However, the work on syslog namespace seems to have hit a dead end
> somewhere in 2013 and there are users who want to use xt_LOG in all
> network namespaces. This patch allows to do so by setting

I understand this stuff is tricky. Did you contact already namespace
folks to see if they plan any move on this?

>   /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log_all_netns

My only concern with this is that I don't see how users know what log
message has triggered from what container.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 12:48 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespaces Michal Kubecek
2016-05-12  9:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-05-16  6:43   ` Michal Kubecek
2016-08-16 11:20     ` Michal Kubecek

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