+ sysctl-min-max-bounds-are-optional.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     sysctl: min/max bounds are optional
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     sysctl-min-max-bounds-are-optional.patch

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Subject: sysctl: min/max bounds are optional
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

sysctl check complains when proc_doulongvec_minmax or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax are used by a vector of longs (with more
than one element), with no min or max value specified.

This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/sysctl_check.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-min-max-bounds-are-optional kernel/sysctl_check.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-min-max-bounds-are-optional
+++ a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
@@ -143,15 +143,6 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *n
 				if (!table->maxlen)
 					set_fail(&fail, table, "No maxlen");
 			}
-			if ((table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_minmax) ||
-			    (table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax)) {
-				if (table->maxlen > sizeof (unsigned long)) {
-					if (!table->extra1)
-						set_fail(&fail, table, "No min");
-					if (!table->extra2)
-						set_fail(&fail, table, "No max");
-				}
-			}
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 			if (table->procname && !table->proc_handler)
 				set_fail(&fail, table, "No proc_handler");
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from eric.dumazet@gmail.com are

sysctl-fix-min-max-handling-in-__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax-v2.patch
sysctl-min-max-bounds-are-optional.patch
linux-next.patch
net-avoid-limits-overflow.patch
fs-allow-for-more-than-231-files.patch
percpu_counter-use-this_cpu_ptr-instead-of-per_cpu_ptr.patch
signals-annotate-lock_task_sighand.patch