From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:06:00 -0600
> I did that audit when I replied to Stephen the first time and I just > redid it to verify myself. We are calling functions that can fail > from the init function (kmalloc in the most common). So the > init function can fail. > > So short of adding a bunch of BUG_ON's to the kernel to trap those > failure cases we can't remove the backwards list walk. Especially > since I can initiate this code path as root by calling > "clone(CLONE_NEWNET...)". I just noticed that posting and thanks for reiterating. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
