linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec

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Message-ID: <1286188701.18293.57.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:38:21 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: fix min/max handling in
 __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()

Le lundi 04 octobre 2010 à 18:35 +0800, Américo Wang a écrit :

> Your patch does fix the problem, but seems not a good solution,
> we should skip all min/max checking if ->extra(1|2) is NULL,
> instead of checking it every time within the loop.

Please do submit a patch, we'll see if you come to a better solution,
with no added code size (this is slow path, I dont care for checking it
'every time winthin the loop')







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