netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20071113.024500.155458534.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:45:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	borntraeger@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	wensong@...ux-vs.org, horms@...ge.net.au, ja@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:29:58 +0100

> Running the latest git code I get the following messages during boot:
> sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_entry .3.5.21.4 Missing strategy
> [...]		  
> sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_packet .3.5.21.5 Missing strategy
> [...]
> sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/secure_tcp .3.5.21.6 Missing strategy
> [...]
> sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/sync_threshold .3.5.21.24 Missing strategy
> 
> I removed the binary sysctl handler for those messages and also removed
> the definitions in ip_vs.h. The alternative would be to implement a 
> proper strategy handler, but syscall sysctl is deprecated.
> 
> There are other sysctl definitions that are commented out or work with 
> the default sysctl_data strategy. I did not touch these. 
> 
> Eric, IPVS team, are you ok with that change?
> 
> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> CC: Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>
> CC: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
> CC: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

Simon planned to make a similar change to dice all of this
stuff up.  He is travelling currently, and I think it's
reasonable to give him some time to get to it.
-
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