From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] fix setting of preempt_max_latency and preempt_thresh on 64 bit systems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:39:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175024392.19634.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327191542.GA15514@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:15 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Maybe fix up all the other myriads of sysctl entries which use a rather
> non-precise generic sizeof(int) as well?
> Or doesn't that make sense?
No, it does make sense
> Maybe this is because it's security relevant and you'd better make sure
> to know *exactly* the number of integers a buffer's length is supposed to be?
This is the problem. I was going to put some more time and clean up all
the stuff in there, but it will take more time than I currently have.
Since I would need to audit all the variables, and see how they would
interact in every arch.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 17:19 [PATCH -rt] fix setting of preempt_max_latency and preempt_thresh on 64 bit systems Steven Rostedt
2007-03-27 19:15 ` Andreas Mohr
2007-03-27 19:39 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2007-03-27 19:15 ` Ingo Molnar
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