From a9febbb4bd1302b6f01aa1203b0a804e4e5c9e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:34:12 -0700
Subject: sysctl: min/max bounds are optional
sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with
more than one element), with no min or max value specified.
This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/sysctl_check.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
(limited to 'kernel')
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
index 04cdcf72c827..10b90d8a03c4 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
@@ -143,15 +143,6 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table)
if (!table->maxlen)
set_fail(&fail, table, "No maxlen");
}
- if ((table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_minmax) ||
- (table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax)) {
- if (table->maxlen > sizeof (unsigned long)) {
- if (!table->extra1)
- set_fail(&fail, table, "No min");
- if (!table->extra2)
- set_fail(&fail, table, "No max");
- }
- }
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
if (table->procname && !table->proc_handler)
set_fail(&fail, table, "No proc_handler");
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