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Message-ID: <20110630130802.GA12620@albatros>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:08:02 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 13:21 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > Perhaps shm_rmid_forced should have had bool type.
> 
> OK.  The sysctl handler should parse it OK if feed it with sizeof(bool).

I was wrong, maxlen must not be less than sizeof(int), it makes sense
for arrays only.  So, it is kept being int.

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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