Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 03:06:25PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:
> 
> >> Andrew should I toss all 100 or so patches over the wall to you
> >> and your -mm tree?  Or should I maintain a public git tree based
> >> at 2.6.31-rc1?  Get it into linux-next and ask Linus to pull it when
> >> the merge window comes?
> >
> > What do these 100 odd patches do exactly? 
> 
> Mostly a fine grained killing of ctl_name, and strategy.

Ok.

The only issue is -- assuming we convert that over to DEFINE_SYSCTL
too (which I think would be much nicer) all tee maintainers would
need to process two patches. So perhaps it would be better to combine
this into a single update?

> > Then the binary sysctls could be handled by a global table
> > in a separate file like you described
> 
> Getting the binary sysctl crud out of the core path should
> happen first.  That is just a handful of patches.

Agreed. It should be just a separate table.

> > the current interfaces are not great, but could be probably kept.
> 
> Things like register_sysctl_path can be greatly improved.  Now
> that we don't have to worry about the binary paths.

With a module DEFINE_SYSCTL() only truly dynamic sysctls (like
the network per device sysctls) would need that anyways; the
far majority of callers wouldn't need to call any functions.

-Andi
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