From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in kernel/sysctl.c (SYSIPC) ?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:40:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030318104051.0fb171ed.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303180751.h2I7pIT11537@hofr.at>
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:51:17 +0100 (CET) Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at> wrote:
| atleast in kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 in kernel/sysctl.c shmmax and shmall use
| the proc_dointvec_minmax callback without passing a min/max value - is there
| a reson for this or is this a simple bug ?
|
| linux/kenrel/sysctl.c (line 221 for 2.4.19/20)
|
| #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
| {KERN_SHMMAX, "shmmax", &shm_ctlmax, sizeof (size_t),
| 0644, NULL, &proc_doulongvec_minmax},
| {KERN_SHMALL, "shmall", &shm_ctlall, sizeof (size_t),
| 0644, NULL, &proc_doulongvec_minmax},
| ...
| #endif
The min and max values default to 0 if not specified (initialized),
and the _minmax functions have code to handle those cases.
so as long as the intended min/max values were 0, I don't see a
problem. Are you seeing a problem?
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-18 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 7:51 Der Herr Hofrat
2003-03-18 18:40 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-03-18 18:55 ` Der Herr Hofrat
2003-03-18 22:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
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