Re: [patch net-next 01/17] net: core: Make the FIB notification chain generic

[David Ahern]

On 7/19/17 1:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> +struct fib_notifier_ops *
> +fib_notifier_ops_register(const struct fib_notifier_ops *tmpl, struct net 
> *net)
> +{
> +     struct fib_notifier_ops *ops;
> +     int err;
> +
> +     ops = kmemdup(tmpl, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL);

why allocate memory to copy the ops?