On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:06:49AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:11:58 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > it looks dangerous.
> > Does it mean that 'for (4B) { create new dev; free old dev; }
> > will keep incrementing that max index and dos it eventually?
>
> This is not changed by this patch in any way. As for the current
> behavior (with or without my patch), by creating and deleting an
> interface, the max index indeed keeps incrementing. There's no DoS,
> however, as the index simply wraps to 1 when reaching maxint. See
> dev_new_index(). This is something I count on in this patch.
makes sense. thanks for explaining.
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