Re: [46/74] net: restore ip source validation

From: Sven Joachim
Date: Fri Feb 05 2010 - 15:56:12 EST


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
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