From fc3501d411d34823fb9be248a95a0c44f945866f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Wegener Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:04:23 -0800 Subject: mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit arches We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index dc32dae01e5f..c17005e73974 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - int old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; + unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; int ret; ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); -- cgit v1.2.3