Re: [GIT PULL] sysctl changes for v7.4-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 02:10, Joel Granados <joel.granados@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Writing fewer elements than the vector or junk after a complete vector
> behave exactly as before. What changes is only a write that already
> returned EINVAL.

Ok, I mis-read the code. I thought we used to just ignore junk at the
end of an incomplete vector write.

If we already returned -EINVAL for that case, then I withdraw the
worry. That would have shown up before, unlike a silent "ignore junk"
case would have.

              Linus