Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700
Rick Jones [off-list ref] wrote:

While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a 
bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of 
the folks who did some internal review for me).  That leads to the 
question - is it considered worthwhile to add a bit more bounds checking 
to sundry networking sysctls?

rick jones

IMHO As long as the any value from sysctl doesn't crash kernel, we
should let it go. Enforcing RFC policy or inter-dependencies seems
likes a useless exercise.