From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58112 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752799AbdA3JII (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2017 04:08:08 -0500 Subject: Patch "sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: edumazet@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:08:06 +0100 Message-ID: <148576728676249@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sysctl-fix-proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From ff9f8a7cf935468a94d9927c68b00daae701667e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:20:55 -0800 Subject: sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() From: Eric Dumazet commit ff9f8a7cf935468a94d9927c68b00daae701667e upstream. We perform the conversion between kernel jiffies and ms only when exporting kernel value to user space. We need to do the opposite operation when value is written by user. Only matters when HZ != 1000 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2487,6 +2487,7 @@ static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(v break; if (neg) continue; + val = convmul * val / convdiv; if ((min && val < *min) || (max && val > *max)) continue; *i = val; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@google.com are queue-4.9/sysctl-fix-proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax.patch