Re: [PATCH 11/14] networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Wed Jul 26 2023 - 14:05:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 04:06:31PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> This is part of the effort to remove the sentinel (last empty) element
> from the ctl_table arrays. We update to the new function and pass it the
> array size. Care is taken to mirror the NULL assignments with a size of
> zero (for the unprivileged users). An additional size function was added
> to the following files in order to calculate the size of an array that
> is defined in another file:
> include/net/ipv6.h
> net/ipv6/icmp.c
> net/ipv6/route.c
> net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
>

Same here as with the other patches, the "why" and size impact should go here.
I'll skip mentioning that in the other patches.

> diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> index bf6e81d56263..5bad14b3c71e 100644
> --- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> +++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
> @@ -1396,6 +1396,40 @@ static const struct ctl_table mpls_dev_table[] = {
> { }
> };
>
> +static int mpls_platform_labels(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> + void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
> +#define MPLS_NS_SYSCTL_OFFSET(field) \
> + (&((struct net *)0)->field)
> +
> +static const struct ctl_table mpls_table[] = {
> + {
> + .procname = "platform_labels",
> + .data = NULL,
> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .mode = 0644,
> + .proc_handler = mpls_platform_labels,
> + },
> + {
> + .procname = "ip_ttl_propagate",
> + .data = MPLS_NS_SYSCTL_OFFSET(mpls.ip_ttl_propagate),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .mode = 0644,
> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> + .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
> + },
> + {
> + .procname = "default_ttl",
> + .data = MPLS_NS_SYSCTL_OFFSET(mpls.default_ttl),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .mode = 0644,
> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE,
> + .extra2 = &ttl_max,
> + },
> + { }
> +};

Unless we hear otherwise from networking folks, I think this move alone
should probably go as a separate patch with no functional changes to
make the changes easier to review / bisect.

Luis