Re: [PATCH 8/8] Re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing msgmni if set to negative

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Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:54 +0100
Nadia.Derbey@xxxxxxxx wrote:


[PATCH 08/08]

This patch is the enhancement as asked for by Yasunori: if msgmni is set to
a negative value, register it back into the ipcns notifier chain.

A new interface has been added to the notification mechanism:
notifier_chain_cond_register() registers a notifier block only if not already
registered. With that new interface we avoid taking care of the states changes
in procfs.

...

static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write,
	struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
+	struct ctl_table ipc_table;
	size_t lenp_bef = *lenp;
	int rc;

-	rc = proc_ipc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	memcpy(&ipc_table, table, sizeof(ipc_table));
+	ipc_table.data = get_ipc(table);
+
+	rc = proc_dointvec(&ipc_table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);

	if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp)
-		/*
-		 * Tunable has successfully been changed from userland:
-		 * disable its automatic recomputing.
-		 */
-		unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
+		tunable_set_callback(*((int *)(ipc_table.data)));

	return rc;
}
@@ -119,12 +142,14 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ct
	rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval,
		newlen);

-	if (newval && newlen && rc > 0)
+	if (newval && newlen && rc > 0) {
		/*
-		 * Tunable has successfully been changed from userland:
-		 * disable its automatic recomputing.
+		 * Tunable has successfully been changed from userland
		 */
-		unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
+		int *data = get_ipc(table);
+
+		tunable_set_callback(*data);
+	}

	return rc;
}


hm, what's happening here?  We take a local copy of the caller's ctl_table
and then pass that into proc_dointvec().  Is that as hacky as it seems??



Well, the caller's ctl_table contains the tunables addresses for the init namspeace in its .data fields. While what needs to be passed in to proc_dointvec() is the tunable address in the caller's namespace. Since all the fields in ipc_kern_table[] are ok but the .data one, imho it's correct to store it in a local copy and change the data field to the appropirate one, before passing it to proc_dointvec().

Regards,
Nadia
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