On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:02:39AM -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Andy Gospodarek
> <go...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
[...]
> > With this patch, actor_oper_port_state and partner_oper.port_state are
> > not displayed in /proc, but that information is available via netlink
> > from bond_fill_slave_info().
> >
> > I suspect you do not deem these two values as critical to the security
> > of the system, but wanted to confirm before ACKing.
> >
> Yes, one can very easily figure out that LACP is used in the system
> with parameters like bond-mode, lacp-rate, or the port-state. I feel
> these do not need to be hidden from unprivileged users to ensure
> security. Principally hiding enough to ensure security would be good
> rather than hiding everything. However if there is a scenario where
> exposing these values is a threat (in the same sense) then it's not
> lot of extra work to achieve that and I'm open to make those change.

Sounds fine to me.  I just wanted to be sure the diffrence between the
information displayed in various modes was intentional (or at least not
unintentional) and did not conflict with your plans.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <go...@cumulusnetworks.com>

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