netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 31232] New: /proc/sys/net/ipv6 has two neigh folders

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Message-Id: <20110316152300.360f9240.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:23:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, sunkan@...pa.cx
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 31232] New: /proc/sys/net/ipv6 has two neigh
 folders


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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:06:34 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31232
> 
>            Summary: /proc/sys/net/ipv6 has two neigh folders
>            Product: Networking
>            Version: 2.5
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.38
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: low
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: IPV6
>         AssignedTo: yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
>         ReportedBy: sunkan@...pa.cx
>         Regression: No
> 
> 
> I noticed when looking for other things that there are two neigh folders in
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6
> 
> Reverting this commit removes the extra neigh folder:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf36076a67db6d7423d09d861a072337866f0dd9
> 
> I don't know how to fix this.
> I tried removing the ',' on the row '.child = empty,' (looking at the other
> rows it did seem like a typo to me).
> 
> This did not change anything that I could see though.
> 
> Here is the commit I believe introduced the bug: 
> 
> --- a/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
>  #include <net/addrconf.h>
>  #include <net/inet_frag.h>
> 
> +static struct ctl_table empty[1];
> +
>  static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
>         {
>                 .procname       = "route",
> @@ -35,6 +37,12 @@ static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
>                 .mode           = 0644,
>                 .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec
>         },
> +       {
> +               .procname       = "neigh",
> +               .maxlen         = 0,
> +               .mode           = 0555,
> +               .child          = empty,
> +       },
>         { }
>  };
> 
> @@ -152,7 +160,6 @@ static struct ctl_table_header *ip6_base;
> 
>  int ipv6_static_sysctl_register(void)
>  {
> -       static struct ctl_table empty[1];
>         ip6_base = register_sysctl_paths(net_ipv6_ctl_path, empty);
>         if (ip6_base == NULL)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 

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