Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:22:42 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] sysctl: control functionality of /proc/pid/mem | From | Kees Cook <> |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 13:12 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On 1/24/12, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> wrote: >> >> + .procname = "proc_pid_mem", >> >> + .data = &sysctl_proc_pid_mem, >> >> + .maxlen = sizeof(int), >> >> + .mode = 0644, >> >> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, >> >> + .extra1 = &zero, >> >> + .extra2 = &two, >> >> + }, >> >> >E.g. moving all such stuff to some sysctl group, not bloating >> > kernel.*. >> >> Ehh. >> How bloat is measured in this case? > > Do we want to add such sort of sysctls "from time to time" when we > consider one or another feature as deprecated? If yes, I'd group them > somehow, e.g. by introducing subdirectory inside of kernel. > > Btw, kernel sysctl dir contains all sort of stuff which goes to "kernel" > as if it is "etc". It already contains ftrace, perf, printk, scheduler, > ipc. IMHO plain kernel hierarchy is not profitable in the long term.
Yeah, after reconsidering this, this sysctl is not the right approach.
-Kees
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