From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, johannes.berg@intel.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
j@w1.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: trust the bitmap in __dev_alloc_name()
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:04:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231020120436.7fbed61c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTJYpx5dn4UPa2/j@nanopsycho>
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:38:31 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >+ if (i == max_netdevices)
> >+ return -ENFILE;
>
> Hmm, aren't you changeing functionality here? I mean, prior to this
> patch, the i of value "max_netdevices" was happily used, wan't it?
> In theory it may break things allowing n-1 netdevices of a name instead
> of n.
Good point, I should add that to the commit message.
But we don't care, right? Nobody is asking to increase
the limit, feel like chances that someone will care
about 32k vs 32k - 1 devices are extremely low.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-20 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 1:18 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: deduplicate netdev name allocation Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: don't use input buffer of __dev_alloc_name() as a scratch space Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: make dev_alloc_name() call dev_prep_valid_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 19:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-21 7:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: reduce indentation of __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:26 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: trust the bitmap in __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 19:04 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-10-21 7:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: remove dev_valid_name() check from __dev_alloc_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-20 1:18 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: remove else after return in dev_prep_valid_name() Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 10:45 ` Jiri Pirko
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