From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:26:14 +0400 > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 01:43 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > "Denis V. Lunev" <den@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > flush delay is used as an external storage for net.ipv4.route.flush sysctl > > > entry. It is write-only. > > > > > > The ctl_table->data for this entry is used once. Fix this case to point > > > to the stack to remove global variable. Do this to avoid additional > > > variable on struct net in the next patch. > > > > > > Possible race (as it was before) accessing this local variable is removed > > > using flush_mutex. > > > > FYI. You can avoid the locking entirely by defining a local struct ctl_table variable > > on the stack. > > Dave, could you consider the patch attached? Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks! _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
