Re: [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace

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Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 08:20 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> On Friday 2010-07-23 06:54, Changli Gao wrote:
> 
> >This patch should be applied after my another patch:
> >http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59729/
> >
> >xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace
> >
> >In nowadays, table entries are per-cpu variables, so it don't make any 
> >sense to copy quota back to one of the variable instances. To keep 
> >things simple, this patch undo the copy.
> 
> I object. This line is on purpose, to give at least a chance of 
> reporting back a more-or-less believable value. Without copying
> the value back, users have moaned about the counter not decreasing
> _at all_.

Maybe, but current situation is buggy.



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