netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/9] mptcp: sysctl: avail sched: remove write access

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Message-ID: <CANn89iLPDTRYEGO0C=gtbHnM=OUPhfdK3RoLzzWMOMLEgmT0Tw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:25:54 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
Cc: mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, 
	Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/9] mptcp: sysctl: avail sched: remove write access

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
<matttbe@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 'net.mptcp.available_schedulers' sysctl knob is there to list available
> schedulers, not to modify this list.
>
> There are then no reasons to give write access to it.
>
> Nothing would have been written anyway, but no errors would have been
> returned, which is unexpected.
>
> Fixes: 73c900aa3660 ("mptcp: add net.mptcp.available_schedulers")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>