kubernetes/cmd/kube-proxy
Claudio Kuenzler f3708fa016 Do not attempt to overwrite higher system (sysctl) values
With this commit kube-proxy accepts current system values (retrieved by sysctl) which are higher than the internally known and expected values.
The code change was mistakenly created as PR in the k3s project (see https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/3505). 
A real life use case is described in Rancher issue https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/33360.

When Kubernetes runs on a Node which itself is a container (e.g. LXC), and the value is changed on the (LXC) host, kube-proxy then fails at the next start as it does not recognize the current value and attempts to overwrite the current value with the previously known one. This result in:

```
I0624 07:38:23.053960      54 conntrack.go:103] Set sysctl 'net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max' to 524288
F0624 07:38:23.053999      54 server.go:495] open /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max: permission denied
```

However a sysctl overwrite only makes sense if the current value is lower than the previously known and expected value. If the value was increased on the host, that shouldn't really bother kube-proxy and just go on with it.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Kuenzler ck@claudiokuenzler.com
2021-08-25 14:16:09 +02:00
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app Do not attempt to overwrite higher system (sysctl) values 2021-08-25 14:16:09 +02:00
OWNERS Add OWNERS file for cmd/kube-proxy 2019-04-26 17:22:29 -07:00
proxy.go remove pkg/version and some of redundant copies of it 2019-09-16 16:24:35 -07:00