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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2013-05-17 10:31:04 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-05-28 11:28:18 +0200
commita6572f84c5b135d9b6df279ed3c8de028bd1edd9 (patch)
tree8555a23db262d55512bf1fc365c5be8ede427f10 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent1b45adcd9a503428e6de6b39bc6892d86c9c1d41 (diff)
downloadlinux-a6572f84c5b135d9b6df279ed3c8de028bd1edd9.tar.gz
watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1
In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
box and nothing I can do but reboot.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959668.9040106@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9edcf456e0fc..b0a1f99907f3 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ extern int blk_iopoll_enabled;
 /* Constants used for minimum and  maximum */
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR
 static int sixty = 60;
-static int neg_one = -1;
 #endif
 
 static int zero;
@@ -814,7 +813,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dowatchdog,
-		.extra1		= &neg_one,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
 		.extra2		= &sixty,
 	},
 	{