On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For all I know, there may be some security reason why we really don't
> want the automatic helpers, even if they can be convenient.
>
> Also, you can just enable them with a kernel command line or a sysctl,
> so it's not like you can't get the old beha
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:09:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> >
> > Considering this being really close to the "userspace breakage"
> > borderline, I'm CCing Linus as well.
>
> For all I know, there may be some security reason why we reall
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
> Considering this being really close to the "userspace breakage"
> borderline, I'm CCing Linus as well.
For all I know, there may be some security reason why we really don't
want the automatic helpers, even if they can be convenient.
Also, y
After I've upgraded backbone router of rather large-ish network to 4.9,
users started complaining about their GRE / PPTP tunnels not working any
more.
Long time of staring into code revealed that 4.9 kernel has
static bool nf_ct_auto_assign_helper __read_mostly = false;
which causes au
