Re: WARNING in __proc_create

[Eric Dumazet]

On 03/09/2018 03:32 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/09/2018 03:05 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> > > BTW, the warning itself is all about empty names, so perhaps
> > > it's better to fix them separately.
> >
> >
> > Huh ? You want more syzbot reports ? I do not.
>
> I always prefer one patch to fix one problem, and, as I already said,
> checking "." and ".." is probably not as trivial as checking empty.
>
> This why I believe 2 (or more) patches here are better than 1 single
> patch.
>
> BTW, I don't have any patch, it is so trivial that I don't want to spend
> my time on it.

The trivial patch has been sent, and Florian gave a (very good) feedback.

Then Pablo offered to write a complete patch.

They both had more pressing issues, and quite frankly I also had more 
pressing issues.

I doubt that sending again the simple fix will be accepted by netfilter 
maintainers.