netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/19] net: Implement register_net

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Message-ID: <4F90F3AB.7050600@parallels.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:27:07 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	"pablo@...filter.org" <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/19] net: Implement register_net_sysctl.

> @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl_rotable(const
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_net_sysctl_rotable);
>  
> +struct ctl_table_header *register_net_sysctl(struct net *net,
> +	const char *path, struct ctl_table *table)
> +{
> +	return __register_sysctl_table(&net->sysctls, path, table);

Eric, am I right, that after this all sysctl-s registered in init_net will
not be even visible in the non-init net namespaces?

If I'm not mistaken, before this all non-virtualized, i.e. "global" sysctls
were read-only in sub net namespaces and that solved lots of problems for us.

> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_net_sysctl);
> +
>  void unregister_net_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header *header)
>  {
>  	unregister_sysctl_table(header);

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