From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + sysctl-error-on-bad-sysctl-tables.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:22:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k5s3zquo.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070810080952.GA6670@localhost.sw.ru> (Alexey Dobriyan's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:09:52 +0400")
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> writes:
> It gives false positive on kernel.pty.nr:
>
> sysctl table check failed: /kernel/pty/nr .1.62.2 No data
>
> However, ->data is set in unix98_pty_init().
It's a race.
Data isn't set until after we enable the sysctl subsystem.
In practice I doubt it matters but I think would rather fix
that one case (by using register_sysctl_table) then not have
the check.
Eric
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2007-08-10 8:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-10 9:22 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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