linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v3] sysctl: simplify the min/max boundary check

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Message-ID: <20240910115231.xnjgwyiwfvdvqgud@joelS2.panther.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:52:31 +0200
From: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
To: Wen Yang <wen.yang@...ux.dev>
CC: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Luis Chamberlain
	<mcgrof@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Christian Brauner
	<brauner@...nel.org>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3] sysctl: simplify the min/max boundary check

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 09:48:18PM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> The do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv_param structure provides the minimum and
> maximum values for doing range checking for the proc_dointvec_minmax()
> handler, while the do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv_param structure also
> provides these min/max values for doing range checking for the
> proc_douintvec_minmax()/proc_dou8vec_minmax() handlers.
> 
> To avoid duplicate code, a new proc_minmax_conv_param structure has been
> introduced to replace both do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv_param and
> do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv_param mentioned above.
> 
> This also prepares for the removal of sysctl_vals and sysctl_long_vals.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@...ux.dev>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Thx for the remind. Its a bit to late to include this for 6.12. Will put it in
sysctl-testing setting it up for 6.13 (or whatever the next version will be).

Best

-- 

Joel Granados