Re: [RFC PATCH 00/39] sysctl: replace overloaded extra pointers with typed bounds and context

[Joel Granados]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 12:34:39AM +0800, wen.yang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Wen Yang <wen.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> struct ctl_table describes an entry with data, maxlen and, until this
> series, two untyped misc pointers in extra1 and extra2. Those two pointers
> have accumulated at least seven unrelated jobs: a fixed bound, a bound read
> through a pointer on every call, an object or namespace pointer, a small
> integer cookie encoded into the pointer, a lock signal, NULL standing for
> "no bound", and a value the core itself casts to unsigned int while
> validating a u8 range. Nothing in the entry says which job applies, so
> readers infer it from the handler, and the core gets it wrong where it
> treats extra1 as an unsigned int.
> 
> The numeric half of this change is the direction Eric Biederman asked for:
<... snip ...>
> 
>  net/ipv6/ndisc.c                              |    3 +-
>  net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c       |   30 +-
>  net/ipv6/reassembly.c                         |   30 +-
>  net/ipv6/route.c                              |   11 +-
>  net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c                    |   53 +-
>  net/mpls/af_mpls.c                            |   58 +-
>  net/mptcp/ctrl.c                              |   29 +-
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c                |  157 +-
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c       |   45 +-
>  net/netfilter/nf_hooks_lwtunnel.c             |    4 +-
>  net/netfilter/nf_log.c                        |   67 +-
>  net/phonet/sysctl.c                           |    6 +-
>  net/rds/ib_sysctl.c                           |   23 +-
>  net/rds/sysctl.c                              |   32 +-
>  net/rds/tcp.c                                 |   11 +-
>  net/rxrpc/sysctl.c                            |   51 +-
>  net/sctp/sysctl.c                             |  148 +-
>  net/smc/smc_sysctl.c                          |   42 +-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma.c                |   39 +-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c               |   27 +-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c                         |   26 +-
>  net/tipc/sysctl.c                             |   18 +-
>  net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                      |    4 +-
>  net/x25/sysctl_net_x25.c                      |   23 +-
>  security/keys/sysctl.c                        |   25 +-
>  security/loadpin/loadpin.c                    |    4 +-
>  security/yama/yama_lsm.c                      |   10 +-
>  134 files changed, 3075 insertions(+), 1525 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Hey Wen

What is the base of this series?

And please add a base for your future series.

Best

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