From 1195d94e006b23c6292e78857e154872e33b6d7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Vagin Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:54:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ipc: always handle a new value of auto_msgmni proc_dointvec_minmax() returns zero if a new value has been set. So we don't need to check all charecters have been handled. Below you can find two examples. In the new value has not been handled properly. $ strace ./a.out open("/proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni", O_WRONLY) = 3 write(3, "0\n\0", 3) = 2 close(3) = 0 exit_group(0) $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace $strace ./a.out open("/proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni", O_WRONLY) = 3 write(3, "0\n", 2) = 2 close(3) = 0 $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace a.out-697 [000] .... 3280.998235: unregister_ipcns_notifier <-proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax Fixes: 9eefe520c814 ("ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputin") Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c index c3f0326..e8075b2 100644 --- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c +++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c @@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { struct ctl_table ipc_table; - size_t lenp_bef = *lenp; int oldval; int rc; @@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write, rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(&ipc_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); - if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp) { + if (write && !rc) { int newval = *((int *)(ipc_table.data)); /* * The file "auto_msgmni" has correctly been set. -- 2.7.4