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From: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 02:19:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104101927.GG3009@templeofstupid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161231125505.7f0c7dff@xeon-e3>

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:55:05PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:11:11 -0800
> Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid•com> wrote:
> 
> >  
> > +config LOWPORT_SYSCTL
> > +	bool "Adjust reserved port range via sysctl"
> > +	depends on SYSCTL
> > +	help
> > +	  This allows the administrator to adjust the reserved port range
> > +	  using a sysctl.
> 
> This looks like a good idea, and makes a lot of sense.
> 
> Please don't introduce yet another config option. All distro's will enable it anyway.
> Having more config options doesn't help reliability or testability.
> 
> Do or do not, please no new config options.

I'd be happy to take it out.  It simplifies things for me.  I had
anticipated that there would be objections to permitting software to get
around the current priviliged port restrictions, and thought that
perhaps as a compromise having it be compile time option would ease some
of those concerns.

-K

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-31  4:11 [PATCH] Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK Krister Johansen
2016-12-31 20:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-04 10:19   ` Krister Johansen [this message]
2017-01-12  6:52   ` [PATCH v2 net-next] " Krister Johansen
2017-01-12 14:22     ` David Miller
2017-01-14  0:13       ` Krister Johansen
2017-01-12 14:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-01-14  0:11       ` Krister Johansen
2017-01-21  1:49       ` [PATCH v3 " Krister Johansen
2017-01-23 20:39         ` David Miller
2017-01-24 17:11         ` David Miller

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