netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make sysctl_tcp

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Date:	Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:27:26 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make sysctl_tcp_ecn namespace aware

On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 02:18 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> 
> I just verified that req->sk is indeed not initialized at that point. I
> had a kernel panic on the first syn packet. So I would propose to keep
> the patch as it is.
> 

Please pass the "struct net" pointer instead, so that the tcp_ecn
dereference is done only if really needed.

Naming a function parameter, or an automatic variable, sysctl_tcp_ecn is
not very nice.



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