On 07.09.2011 12:16, Alex Bligh wrote:
> The released resolution broke a production environment here: See #844185
> 
> I propose this is instead fixed by disabling it in vsftpd.
> 
The problem is that nobody can say that vsftp was or is the only vector that
allows to DOS a system doing something that involves network namespaces.

If netns is essential. It is probably a better solution to move to the
LTS-backports kernel which is newer and does not have those memory cleanup 
issues.

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