Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:45:58 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler |
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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@lst.de>
Ah, nice!
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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