Re: [PATCH] sysctl initialization of zone_reclaim_mode

[Christoph Lameter]

A cleanup patch has been in Andrews tree for awhile and I hope that Linus 
applies it today. This is the ., hmm .... 4th time the patch was posted.

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Fix warning about initialization of sysctl table in current 2.6.16-rc1
> git tree. It could cause a nasty if anyone wrote to it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -878,7 +878,8 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
>  		.maxlen		= sizeof(zone_reclaim_mode),
>  		.mode		= 0644,
>  		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
> -		.strategy	= &zero,
> +		.strategy	= &sysctl_intvec,
> +		.extra1		= &zero,
>  	},
>  #endif
>  	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
> -
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