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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>, Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Fix allocation of cong control alg name
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:11:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55684968.9070206@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432897445.7456.76.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 05/29/2015 01:04 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
...
> I doubt TCP_CA_NAME_MAX will ever change in the kernel : 16 bytes.
>
> Its typically "cubic" and less than 8 bytes.
>
> Using 8 bytes to point to a malloc(8) is a waste.
>
> Please remove the memory allocation, or store the pointer, since
> tcp_show_info() does the malloc()/free() before return.

+1, much better

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-29 10:30 [PATCH iproute2] ss: Fix allocation of cong control alg name Vadim Kochan
2015-05-29 11:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-05-29 11:11   ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-05-29 12:53   ` Vadim Kochan
2015-05-29 15:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-05-29 11:09 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-05-29 16:17   ` Guzman Mosqueda, Jose R
2015-05-29 16:48     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-06-25  3:31       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-06-25  7:12         ` Daniel Borkmann

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