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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2013-09-23 16:43:58 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-09-23 11:10:49 +0200
commitcd64647f043e3fd3569bcf068f47f030198ff93a (patch)
treec4ff621340758e4dde72ddb8c3a63d32604c0fbb /kernel/sysctl.c
parentd8524ae9d6f492a9c6db9f4d89c5f9b8782fa2d5 (diff)
downloadlinux-cd64647f043e3fd3569bcf068f47f030198ff93a.tar.gz
hung_task: Change sysctl_hung_task_check_count to 'int'
As 'sysctl_hung_task_check_count' is 'unsigned long' when this
value is assigned to max_count in check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(),
it's truncated to 'int' type.

This causes a minor artifact: if we write 2^32 to sysctl.hung_task_check_count,
hung task detection will be effectively disabled.

With this fix, it will still truncate the user input to 32 bits, but
reading sysctl.hung_task_check_count reflects the actual truncated value.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/523FFF4E.9050401@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b2f06f3c6a3f..b24ed7f87a14 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -962,9 +962,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "hung_task_check_count",
 		.data		= &sysctl_hung_task_check_count,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_doulongvec_minmax,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "hung_task_timeout_secs",