ipv6: Silence privacy extensions initialization

When a network namespace is created (via CLONE_NEWNET), the loopback
interface is automatically added to the new namespace, triggering a
printk in ipv6_add_dev() if CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY is set.

This is problematic for applications which use CLONE_NEWNET as
part of a sandbox, like Chromium's suid sandbox or recent versions of
vsftpd. On a busy machine, it can lead to thousands of useless
"lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions" messages appearing in dmesg.

It's easy enough to check the status of privacy extensions via the
use_tempaddr sysctl, so just removing the printk seems like the most
sensible solution.

Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 5b189c97c2fc..24a1cf110d80 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -420,9 +420,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
             dev->type == ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 ||
             dev->type == ARPHRD_SIT ||
             dev->type == ARPHRD_NONE) {
-                printk(KERN_INFO
-                       "%s: Disabled Privacy Extensions\n",
-                       dev->name);
                 ndev->cnf.use_tempaddr = -1;
         } else {
                 in6_dev_hold(ndev);