netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Revert "fib_trie: use seq_file

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Message-Id: <20140604.151202.2143622064529754958.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sasha.levin@...cle.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Revert "fib_trie: use seq_file_net rather than
 seq->private"

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Date: Wed,  4 Jun 2014 18:02:32 -0400

> This reverts commit 30f38d2fdd79f13fc929489f7e6e517b4a4bfe63.
> 
> fib_triestat is surrounded by a big lie: while it claims that it's a
> seq_file (fib_triestat_seq_open, fib_triestat_seq_show), it isn't:
> 
> 	static const struct file_operations fib_triestat_fops = {
> 	        .owner  = THIS_MODULE,
> 	        .open   = fib_triestat_seq_open,
> 	        .read   = seq_read,
> 	        .llseek = seq_lseek,
> 	        .release = single_release_net,
> 	};
> 
> Yes, fib_triestat is just a regular file.
> 
> A small detail (assuming CONFIG_NET_NS=y) is that while for seq_files
> you could do seq_file_net() to get the net ptr, doing so for a regular
> file would be wrong and would dereference an invalid pointer.
> 
> The fib_triestat lie claimed a victim, and trying to show the file would
> be bad for the kernel. This patch just reverts the issue and fixes
> fib_triestat, which still needs a rewrite to either be a seq_file or
> stop claiming it is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

Thanks a lot for catching this, applied.
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