Re: + sysctl-return-einval-if-val-violates-minmax.patch added to -mm tree

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 01:06:32PM -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> @@ -2848,8 +2848,10 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(v

> -			if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max))
> -				continue;
> +			if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) {
> +				err = -EINVAL;

I was asked to return ERANGE in kstrto*().
If nothing, it gives better error message:

	$ ./a.out
	foo: Numerical result out of range