Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl.c: If "count" including the terminating byte '\0' the write system call should retrun success.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:11:38 +0800
Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:17:29 +0800
> >>> Sean Fu <fxinrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> strace execute result:
> >>>> write(3, "1\2\0", 3)                    = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> > If vleft > 1, "1\0 2" is treated as invalid paraments and all string
> > include '\0' will be invalid.
> Hi All experts,
> Could you please signed off this patch?

If anyone should take this, it would be Andrew.

I have no issue with the patch. Eric, you had some issue, but I don't
see a scenario that would depend on the current behavior. That is, what
do you think would break if we put it back to the old behavior?

-- Steve
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