Re: + sysctl-error-on-bad-sysctl-tables.patch added to -mm tree

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:11:50PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> Subject: sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables
> From: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl
> table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table.
> 
> 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.
> 
> As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up
> now are legitimate.

It gives false positive on kernel.pty.nr:

	sysctl table check failed: /kernel/pty/nr .1.62.2 No data

However, ->data is set in unix98_pty_init().

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