Hello.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:09:29 -0600), [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says:

> After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has
> become clear that code review and testing is just not effective in
> prevent problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable
> kernel.  I certainly can't seem to fix the problems as fast as
> they are introduced.
:
> The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl
> entries, but since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table
> should not need to change, and it makes it much easier to detect
> when someone unintentionally adds a new binary sysctl value.

I don't think everyone needs to have this code, so
it is better to make it configurable via
CONFIG_SYSCTL_DEBUG or something..., ...no?

--yoshfuji

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