Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] ipc: Clamp semmni to the real IPCMNI limit

From: Waiman Long
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 17:00:07 EST


On 03/12/2018 04:52 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:15:43PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> + if (clamped)
>> + pr_warn_once("sysctl: \"sem[3]\" was set out of range [%d, %d], clamped to %d.\n",
>> + 0, IPCMNI, ns->sc_semmni);
> Why warn if the kernel already does that? If we can avoid more code on
> drivers the better.
>
> Luis

As said before, this case is special because "sem" is a collection of 4
different values. The last one is semmni which I tries to apply the same
range clamping here, whereas the other 3 are left as they are. The
standard proc_dointvec_minmax() handler cannot be used here because of
that. I will clarify that in the commit log.

Cheers,
Longman