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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:59:39 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> Cc: Linux Network Development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700 Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote: > While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a > bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of > the folks who did some internal review for me). That leads to the > question - is it considered worthwhile to add a bit more bounds checking > to sundry networking sysctls? > > rick jones IMHO As long as the any value from sysctl doesn't crash kernel, we should let it go. Enforcing RFC policy or inter-dependencies seems likes a useless exercise. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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