From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:53:17 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mm: prevent setting of a value less than 0 to min_free_kbytes
X-Git-Tag: v3.14-rc1~108^2~171
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da8c757b080ee84f219fa2368cb5dd23ac304fc0;p=pandora-kernel.git

mm: prevent setting of a value less than 0 to min_free_kbytes

If echo -1 > /proc/vm/sys/min_free_kbytes, the system will hang.  Changing
proc_dointvec() to proc_dointvec_minmax() in the
min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler() can prevent this to happen.

mhocko said:

: You can still do echo $BIG_VALUE > /proc/vm/sys/min_free_kbytes and make
: your machine unusable but I agree that proc_dointvec_minmax is more
: suitable here as we already have:
:
: 	.proc_handler   = min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler,
: 	.extra1         = &zero,
:
: It used to work properly but then 6fce56ec91b5 ("sysctl: Remove references
: to ctl_name and strategy from the generic sysctl table") has removed
: sysctl_intvec strategy and so extra1 is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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