From bfdb4d9f0f611687d71cf6a460efc9e755f4a462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arun R Bharadwaj Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00:58 +0530 Subject: timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input Poornima Nayek reported: | Timer migration interface /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration in | 2.6.30-git9 accepts any numerical value as input. | | Steps to reproduce: | 1. echo -6666666 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration | 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration | -6666666 | | 1. echo 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration | 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration | -1357789412 | | Expected behavior: Should 'echo: write error: Invalid argument' while | setting any value other then 0 & 1 Restrict valid values to 0 and 1. Reported-by: Poornima Nayak Tested-by: Poornima Nayak Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj Cc: poornima nayak Cc: Arun Bharadwaj LKML-Reference: <20090623043058.GA3249@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sysctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 62e4ff9968b..c428ba161db 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -335,7 +335,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_timer_migration, .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax, + .strategy = &sysctl_intvec, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, }, #endif { -- cgit v1.2.3