From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, Randolf Pohl <randolf.pohl@gmx.de>,
gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [46/74] net: restore ip source validation
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:55:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr4jxuzl.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mxzn8mj5.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:50 -0800")
On 2010-02-05 21:17 +0100, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Bah. That DEVINET_SYSCTL_ENTRY requires having a binary sysctl
> assigned, just to use as an index.
>
> Which of course trips over all of the fine checks in sysctl_check.c to
> keep people from assigning new binary sysctls by accident.
>
> That is the only place in the kernel where he have that problem, I wonder
> how much work it will be to finish untangling.
Isn't that already done in 2.6.33, looking at commit 83ac201b ? Forgive
my ignorance, I am a layman.
Sen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 14:34 Randolf Pohl
2010-02-05 14:51 ` jamal
2010-02-05 16:04 ` Sven Joachim
2010-02-05 20:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-05 20:55 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2010-02-05 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-05 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-04 17:18 [00/74] 2.6.32.8-stable review Greg KH
2010-02-04 17:12 ` [46/74] net: restore ip source validation Greg KH
2010-02-05 10:16 ` Sven Joachim
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