On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:11:58 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> it looks dangerous.
> Does it mean that 'for (4B) { create new dev; free old dev; }
> will keep incrementing that max index and dos it eventually?This is not changed by this patch in any way. As for the current behavior (with or without my patch), by creating and deleting an interface, the max index indeed keeps incrementing. There's no DoS, however, as the index simply wraps to 1 when reaching maxint. See dev_new_index(). This is something I count on in this patch. Jiri -- Jiri Benc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
