netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: unix: make some variables constant

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: <1287467263.2775.2.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:47:43 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: unix: make some variables constant

Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 13:24 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
> And since ctl_table.data is initialized later, we don't need to initialize
> the data member of the template variable unix_table.
> 

The init cost is nothing, since its a data blob that must be there
anyway.

We could even avoid the kmemdup() if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set

--
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