Re: [RFC] mm: prevent set a value less than 0 to min_free_kbytes

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Han Pingtian wrote:

> If echo -1 > /proc/vm/sys/min_free_kbytes, the system will hang.
> Changing proc_dointvec() to proc_dointvec_minmax() in the
> min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler() can prevent this to happen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <hanpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice catch!
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