Netdev List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6_route
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:22:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120616.152201.604219757642573995.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120616130723.GA8388@neilslaptop.think-freely.org>

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:07:23 -0400

> Perhaps the flag on the proc file like we discussed might be the
> better way to go after all here Thomas.

I suspect Thomas's general approach was fine, he just was trying
to hard. :-)

Just seperate exactly the procfs, sysctl, etc. stuff into a completely
seperate set of network namespace ops, and do it dead last in the
initialization list.

At least that is how I would approach the fix.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-16 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-15  9:00 [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6_route Thomas Graf
2012-06-15 10:56 ` Neil Horman
2012-06-15 22:32   ` David Miller
2012-06-16  5:15     ` David Miller
2012-06-16  8:13       ` David Miller
2012-06-16 13:07       ` Neil Horman
2012-06-16 22:22         ` David Miller [this message]
2012-06-17  6:11       ` Thomas Graf
2012-06-19 11:36     ` Thomas Graf
2012-06-19 21:13       ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-16  9:46 Sedat Dilek

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120616.152201.604219757642573995.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=nhorman@tuxdriver.com \
    --cc=tgraf@suug.ch \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox