Subject: Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:59:39 -0700

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700
Rick Jones <[email-masked]> wrote:

> While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a 
> bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of 
> the folks who did some internal review for me).  That leads to the 
> question - is it considered worthwhile to add a bit more bounds checking 
> to sundry networking sysctls?
> 
> rick jones

IMHO As long as the any value from sysctl doesn't crash kernel, we
should let it go. Enforcing RFC policy or inter-dependencies seems
likes a useless exercise.