[PATCH 0/4] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from networking

Joel Granados j.granados at samsung.com
Fri Mar 15 07:58:30 PDT 2024


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 03:42:48PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:20:40 +0100 Joel Granados via B4 Relay wrote:
> > These commits remove the sentinel element (last empty element) from the
> > sysctl arrays of all the files under the "net/" directory that register
> > a sysctl array. The merging of the preparation patches [4] to mainline
> > allows us to just remove sentinel elements without changing behavior.
> > This is safe because the sysctl registration code (register_sysctl() and
> > friends) use the array size in addition to checking for a sentinel [1].
> 
> Thanks, but please resend after the merge window, we don't apply
> code to -next until -rc1 is cut.
of course. I'll resend after -rc1 hits kernel.org.

Best

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Joel Granados
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