netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc

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Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:45:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 08:41:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
> is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
> from  userspace in common code.  This also means that the strings are
> always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
> safer.
> 
> As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
> a lot of the changes are mechnical.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Ah, nice!

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>