linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] sysctl: cap to ULONG_MAX in proc_get

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Message-ID: <20181015192710.GA18693@avx2>
Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:27:10 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     christian@...uner.io
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] sysctl: cap to ULONG_MAX in proc_get_long()

> int kstrtoul_bounded(const char *s, unsigned int base,
> char **trailing, unsigned long long *res)

NO! The whole point is not have million variants of slightly different
integer parsing functions.
Cap it in the sysctl -- noone would care.