Re: [PATCH] kernel: sysctl: use 'unsigned long' type for 'zero' variable
From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 - 01:41:22 EST
On 12/13/2014 11:51 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12/04/2014 12:25 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:41:21 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Use the 'unsigned long' type for 'zero' variable to fix this.
>>> Changing type to 'unsigned long' shouldn't affect any other users
>>> of this variable.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Fixes: ed4d4902ebdd ("mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and hugetlb_infinity")
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> index 15f2511..45c45c9 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
>>> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int sixty = 60;
>>> static int __maybe_unused neg_one = -1;
>>> -static int zero;
>>> +static unsigned long zero;
>
> After some (useless) playing around (see the attached patch):
>
> Using
>> .extra1=zero,
> for proc_doulongvec_minmax doesn't make any sense:
>
> __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() internally contains
>> if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max))
>> continue;
>
> What about just deleting the offending .extra1=zero line?
> .extra1=NULL has the same effect as .extra1=&zero.
>
Agreed, I think this should work.
> --
> Manfred
>
>
>
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