YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
I guess the other thing is. Except for code size it doesn't matter. As register_sysctl_table gets called very rarely. Eric _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
