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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:48:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200331074836.GB30449@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8146e3d0-89c3-7f79-f786-084c58282c85@suse.cz>

On Tue 31-03-20 09:42:46, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
[...]
> > Should we not do this, we'll have to live with the consequences of
> > supporting the full swoop of sysctls are boot params, whatever
> > consequences those may be.
> 
> Of course when the first user tries to set some particular sysctl as boot param
> and finds and reports it doesn't work as intended, then it can be fixed or
> blacklisted and it can't break anyone else?

Absolutely agreed. I would be really careful to not overengineer this
whole thing.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-31  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-30 11:55 [PATCH 0/3] support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-30 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sysctl: " Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-30 16:23   ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-30 17:40     ` Kees Cook
2020-03-30 17:39   ` Kees Cook
2020-03-30 20:15   ` kbuild test robot
2020-03-31 18:29     ` Kees Cook
2020-03-30 22:44   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-31  7:42     ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-31  7:48       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-03-31 18:26         ` Kees Cook
2020-03-31 14:31       ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-01 11:01     ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-02 16:04       ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 17:23         ` Kees Cook
2020-04-02 20:59           ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-03 23:57             ` Kees Cook
2020-04-06 14:08               ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-06 15:58                 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-06 17:08                   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-14 11:25                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-15  3:23                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-15  6:08                       ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-30 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-30 17:41   ` Kees Cook
2020-03-31 14:35   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-30 11:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] kernel/hung_task convert hung_task_panic boot parameter to sysctl Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-30 17:43   ` Kees Cook
2020-03-31  0:34     ` John Hubbard
2020-03-31  7:27       ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-31 15:49         ` John Hubbard
2020-03-31 23:12   ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-04-01  8:47     ` Vlastimil Babka

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