Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sysctl: cleanup net_sysctl_init()

[Alexander Lobakin]

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:30:56 -0800

> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:40:28 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>> 'net_header' is not used outside of this function, so can be moved
>> from BSS onto the stack.
>> Declarations of one-element arrays are discouraged, and there's no
>> need to store 'empty' in BSS. Simply allocate it from heap at init.
>
> Are you sure? It's passed as an argument to register_sysctl()
> so it may well need to be valid for the lifetime of net_header.

I just moved it from BSS to the heap and allocate it using kzalloc(),
it's still valid through the lifetime of the kernel.

Al