[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

Hello.

In article <m1hcn8a2rq.fsf_-_ at ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:09:29 -0600), ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) says:

> After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has
> become clear that code review and testing is just not effective in
> prevent problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable
> kernel.  I certainly can't seem to fix the problems as fast as
> they are introduced.
:
> The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl
> entries, but since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table
> should not need to change, and it makes it much easier to detect
> when someone unintentionally adds a new binary sysctl value.

I don't think everyone needs to have this code, so
it is better to make it configurable via
CONFIG_SYSCTL_DEBUG or something..., ...no?

--yoshfuji