netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:40:06 -0700
From:   Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>,
        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 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> [Wed, 2020-04-22 10:23 -0700]:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:23:30PM -0700, Andrey Ignatov wrote:
> > >  	if (ret == 1 && ctx.new_updated) {
> > > -		*new_buf = ctx.new_val;
> > > +		*buf = ctx.new_val;
> > 
> > Original value of *buf should be freed before overriding it here
> > otherwise it's lost/leaked unless I missed something.
> > 
> > Other than this BPF part of this patch looks good to me. Feel free to
> > add my Ack on the next iteration with this fix.
> 
> Thanks, fixed.
> 
> Can you also comment on "bpf-cgroup: remove unused exports" ?

Sure, reviewed.

-- 
Andrey Ignatov