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author | Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> | 2009-12-14 17:59:52 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -0800 |
commit | 70da2340fbc68e91e701762f785479ab495a0869 (patch) | |
tree | f55055a8fa8cb8e00b72ae8f3629dc884515f5e9 /drivers/net | |
parent | f096e59e844ba3c5d5a7b54b3deafd2aeeebf921 (diff) |
'sysctl_max_map_count' should be non-negative
Jan Engelhardt reported we have this problem:
setting max_map_count to a value large enough results in programs dying at
first try. This is on 2.6.31.6:
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31-1] >max_map_count
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count
1073741824
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31] >max_map_count
15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count
Killed
This is because we have a chance to make 'max_map_count' negative. but
it's meaningless. Make it only accept non-negative values.
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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