sysctl: min/max bounds are optional

a9febbb4 · Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> · 2010-10-15 14:34:12 -07:00

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: a9febbb4bd1302b6f01aa1203b0a804e4e5c9e25
Parents: 5a2b3ef4

Changes

1 files changed · +0 −9

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
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kernel/sysctl_check.c

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diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
index 04cdcf7..10b90d8 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");