[PATCH 2/3] sysctl: don't print negative flag for proc_douintvec

From: Liping Zhang
Date: Fri Apr 07 2017 - 11:53:15 EST


From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>

I saw some very confusing sysctl output on my system:
# cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth
-2
# cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_etime
-10
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-4294967295

Because we forget to set the *negp flag in proc_douintvec, so it will
become a garbage value.

Since the value related to proc_douintvec is always an unsigned integer,
so we can set *negp to false explictily to fix this issue.

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index acf0a5a..8cca4c7 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2136,6 +2136,7 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(bool *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
*valp = *lvalp;
} else {
unsigned int val = *valp;
+ *negp = false;
*lvalp = (unsigned long)val;
}
return 0;
--
2.5.5