From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, Randolf Pohl <randolf.pohl@gmx.de>, gregkh@suse.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [46/74] net: restore ip source validation
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:55:58 +0100
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	of "Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:17:50 -0800")
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On 2010-02-05 21:17 +0100, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Bah.  That DEVINET_SYSCTL_ENTRY requires having a binary sysctl
> assigned, just to use as an index.
>
> Which of course trips over all of the fine checks in sysctl_check.c to
> keep people from assigning new binary sysctls by accident.
>
> That is the only place in the kernel where he have that problem, I wonder
> how much work it will be to finish untangling.

Isn't that already done in 2.6.33, looking at commit 83ac201b ?  Forgive
my ignorance, I am a layman.

Sen
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