Hello. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:09:29 -0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) says:
> After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has > become clear that code review and testing is just not effective in > prevent problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable > kernel. I certainly can't seem to fix the problems as fast as > they are introduced. : > The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl > entries, but since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table > should not need to change, and it makes it much easier to detect > when someone unintentionally adds a new binary sysctl value. I don't think everyone needs to have this code, so it is better to make it configurable via CONFIG_SYSCTL_DEBUG or something..., ...no? --yoshfuji - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
