* [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode
@ 2006-02-01 17:55 Stephen Hemminger
2006-02-01 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-01 18:31 ` Christoph Lameter
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2006-02-01 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton; +Cc: Andi Kleen, linux-kernel
Fix warning about initialization of sysctl table in current 2.6.16-rc1
git tree. It could cause a nasty if anyone wrote to it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -878,7 +878,8 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(zone_reclaim_mode),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
- .strategy = &zero,
+ .strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
},
#endif
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
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* Re: [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode
2006-02-01 17:55 [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode Stephen Hemminger
@ 2006-02-01 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-01 18:31 ` Christoph Lameter
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2006-02-01 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Andi Kleen, linux-kernel
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Fix warning about initialization of sysctl table in current 2.6.16-rc1
> git tree. It could cause a nasty if anyone wrote to it.
Already fixed in the current tree by Christoph Lameter,
Linus
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* Re: [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode
2006-02-01 17:55 [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode Stephen Hemminger
2006-02-01 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
@ 2006-02-01 18:31 ` Christoph Lameter
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Lameter @ 2006-02-01 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Andi Kleen, linux-kernel
A cleanup patch has been in Andrews tree for awhile and I hope that Linus
applies it today. This is the ., hmm .... 4th time the patch was posted.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Fix warning about initialization of sysctl table in current 2.6.16-rc1
> git tree. It could cause a nasty if anyone wrote to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
>
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -878,7 +878,8 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
> .maxlen = sizeof(zone_reclaim_mode),
> .mode = 0644,
> .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
> - .strategy = &zero,
> + .strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
> + .extra1 = &zero,
> },
> #endif
> { .ctl_name = 0 }
> -
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