From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752404AbXC0TkI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:40:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752661AbXC0TkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:40:07 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.55]:50136 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404AbXC0TkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:40:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] fix setting of preempt_max_latency and preempt_thresh on 64 bit systems From: Steven Rostedt To: Andreas Mohr Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML In-Reply-To: <20070327191542.GA15514@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> References: <1175015947.19634.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070327191542.GA15514@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:39:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1175024392.19634.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:15 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Maybe fix up all the other myriads of sysctl entries which use a rather > non-precise generic sizeof(int) as well? > Or doesn't that make sense? No, it does make sense > Maybe this is because it's security relevant and you'd better make sure > to know *exactly* the number of integers a buffer's length is supposed to be? This is the problem. I was going to put some more time and clean up all the stuff in there, but it will take more time than I currently have. Since I would need to audit all the variables, and see how they would interact in every arch. -- Steve