Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

From: Andrey Ignatov
Date: Wed Apr 22 2020 - 19:40:43 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> [Wed, 2020-04-22 10:23 -0700]:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:23:30PM -0700, Andrey Ignatov wrote:
> > > if (ret == 1 && ctx.new_updated) {
> > > - *new_buf = ctx.new_val;
> > > + *buf = ctx.new_val;
> >
> > Original value of *buf should be freed before overriding it here
> > otherwise it's lost/leaked unless I missed something.
> >
> > Other than this BPF part of this patch looks good to me. Feel free to
> > add my Ack on the next iteration with this fix.
>
> Thanks, fixed.
>
> Can you also comment on "bpf-cgroup: remove unused exports" ?

Sure, reviewed.

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Andrey Ignatov