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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: coreteam@netfilter.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING in __proc_create
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:42:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddcf91b3-8526-bac5-d2bb-c5a39deeaac1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXPO_9=sj1DiMRfNmhZkUnCaoJtWw2O82g9AKSYjRFrZA@mail.gmail.com>



On 03/09/2018 03:32 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/09/2018 03:05 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW, the warning itself is all about empty names, so perhaps
>>> it's better to fix them separately.
>>
>>
>> Huh ? You want more syzbot reports ? I do not.
> 
> I always prefer one patch to fix one problem, and, as I already said,
> checking "." and ".." is probably not as trivial as checking empty.
> 
> This why I believe 2 (or more) patches here are better than 1 single
> patch.
> 
> BTW, I don't have any patch, it is so trivial that I don't want to spend
> my time on it.

The trivial patch has been sent, and Florian gave a (very good) feedback.

Then Pablo offered to write a complete patch.

They both had more pressing issues, and quite frankly I also had more 
pressing issues.

I doubt that sending again the simple fix will be accepted by netfilter 
maintainers.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-09 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-09 21:59 WARNING in __proc_create syzbot
2018-03-09 22:48 ` Cong Wang
2018-03-09 22:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2018-03-09 22:58     ` Eric Dumazet
2018-03-09 23:05       ` Cong Wang
2018-03-09 23:18         ` Florian Westphal
2018-03-09 23:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2018-03-09 23:32           ` Cong Wang
2018-03-09 23:42             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-03-09 23:02     ` Florian Westphal

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