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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 01/17] net: core: Make the FIB notification chain
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:11:56 -0600
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On 7/19/17 1:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> +struct fib_notifier_ops *
> +fib_notifier_ops_register(const struct fib_notifier_ops *tmpl, struct net *net)
> +{
> +	struct fib_notifier_ops *ops;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	ops = kmemdup(tmpl, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL);

why allocate memory to copy the ops?