[PATCH] NFS: procfs/sysctl interfaces for lockd do not work on x86_64

[PATCH] NFS: procfs/sysctl interfaces for lockd do not work on x86_64

[Steve Dickson]

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Here is an problem that was brought to my attention and I noticed
it was not fixed in any of the upstream kernels I looked at.

steved.

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A trivial patch that allows the setting of NLM timeouts and grace periods
through the proc and sysclt interfaces on x86_64 architectures

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6.12.2/fs/lockd/svc.c.orig	2005-06-29 19:00:53.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.12.2/fs/lockd/svc.c	2005-07-08 14:26:41.671010000 -0400
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ static ctl_table nlm_sysctls[] = {
 		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
 		.procname	= "nlm_grace_period",
 		.data		= &nlm_grace_period,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= (unsigned long *) &nlm_grace_period_min,
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static ctl_table nlm_sysctls[] = {
 		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
 		.procname	= "nlm_timeout",
 		.data		= &nlm_timeout,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned long),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
 		.extra1		= (unsigned long *) &nlm_timeout_min,