linux-kernel - [34-longterm 106/209] sysctl: min/max bounds are optional

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:42:16 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 106/209] sysctl: min/max bounds are optional

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

  =====================================================================
  | This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
  | If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
  =====================================================================

commit a9febbb4bd1302b6f01aa1203b0a804e4e5c9e25 upstream

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@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 kernel/sysctl_check.c |    9 ---------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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");
-- 
1.7.4.4

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