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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: cratiu@ixiacom.com, jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com,
	kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch-next] Fix the size overflow of addrconf_sysctl array
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:14:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910142114.53845.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013.034509.130893738.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 13:45:09 you wrote:
> From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:11:14 +0300
> 
> > Shouldn't this be changed too then?
> >
> > Or better yet, wouldn't a change that eliminates the need of adding a new
> > option in two separate places be useful?
> 
> Yes, it's crummy how things work now, indeed.
> 
> > I see the only use for that DEVCONF enum is to dump the settings via
> > netlink. Wouldn't a memcpy suffice?
> 
> It should be.
> 

I've taken a look at this and it seems the current way of doing it is really 
required as we need to preserve userspace ABI across different CONFIG_ 
settings.

tavi

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-10-09  5:44 ` [Patch-next] Fix the size overflow of addrconf_sysctl array David Miller
2009-10-09 13:11   ` Cosmin Ratiu
2009-10-13 10:45     ` David Miller
2009-10-14 18:14       ` Octavian Purdila [this message]

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