netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash via /proc/net/ipv6

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Message-Id: <20120616.152201.604219757642573995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Prevent access to uninitialized fib_table_hash
 via /proc/net/ipv6_route

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:07:23 -0400

> Perhaps the flag on the proc file like we discussed might be the
> better way to go after all here Thomas.

I suspect Thomas's general approach was fine, he just was trying
to hard. :-)

Just seperate exactly the procfs, sysctl, etc. stuff into a completely
seperate set of network namespace ops, and do it dead last in the
initialization list.

At least that is how I would approach the fix.
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