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-rw-r--r--docs/podman-stats.1.md3
-rw-r--r--libpod/networking_linux.go6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/podman-stats.1.md b/docs/podman-stats.1.md
index e0cff0dc2..741873c3f 100644
--- a/docs/podman-stats.1.md
+++ b/docs/podman-stats.1.md
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Note: Podman stats will not work in rootless environments that use CGroups V1.
Podman stats relies on CGroup information for statistics, and CGroup v1 is not
supported for rootless use cases.
+Note: Rootless environments that use CGroups V2 are not able to report statistics
+about their networking usage.
+
## OPTIONS
**--all**, **-a**
diff --git a/libpod/networking_linux.go b/libpod/networking_linux.go
index 8181cbc8a..4360c8c15 100644
--- a/libpod/networking_linux.go
+++ b/libpod/networking_linux.go
@@ -462,6 +462,12 @@ func getContainerNetNS(ctr *Container) (string, error) {
func getContainerNetIO(ctr *Container) (*netlink.LinkStatistics, error) {
var netStats *netlink.LinkStatistics
+ // rootless v2 cannot seem to resolve its network connection to
+ // collect statistics. For now, we allow stats to at least run
+ // by returning nil
+ if rootless.IsRootless() {
+ return netStats, nil
+ }
netNSPath, netPathErr := getContainerNetNS(ctr)
if netPathErr != nil {
return nil, netPathErr