From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85398C19F2B for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233951AbiG0SeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:34:14 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47866 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232918AbiG0Sd6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:33:58 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07D8910BFF6; Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:31:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=FebJFylVckTiyIepFSSk7WIA2wIWss3TlVC3X8R+ZCA=; b=Q1gurOSYXisxVFMmdhcycWtm4X zEKQPuTKDGwneodlrqmrfZmbuzSYZIWVSHVBNmG38NSbrnemtw2ZZNIY4ou2C9wrAeiD+MPLJL15d pJcqAB6PS7fE5UauStkEeExBRzm/nDoeIvLgk4eRYsdXr36N53rIZc9vjynpzeKdkDoOvGQqPIBHf wBffH7xudkUt7yoV9PhHlF5MP2250iIX7l5iedOffK6Pv+XQh1echz2XH6/lXjExTmsjicrVHEnGK gnbY0DxZHbQTgOvAVerLkYybqMBY89nd4gomUh0Wv22PFxat8HZLUDpDtxP5ndXWSNGpL1blIt5FN wtGQR/mQ==; Received: from mcgrof by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1oGksj-00G7nJ-AG; Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:31:37 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:31:37 -0700 From: Luis Chamberlain To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Xiaoming Ni , Kees Cook , Al Viro , Amir Goldstein , Andy Shevchenko , Benjamin LaHaise , "Eric W. Biederman" , Iurii Zaikin , Jan Kara , Paul Turner , Peter Zijlstra , Petr Mladek , Qing Wang , Sebastian Reichel , Sergey Senozhatsky , Stephen Kitt , Tetsuo Handa , Antti Palosaari , Arnd Bergmann , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Clemens Ladisch , David Airlie , Jani Nikula , Joel Becker , Joonas Lahtinen , Joseph Qi , Julia Lawall , Lukas Middendorf , Mark Fasheh , Phillip Potter , Rodrigo Vivi , Douglas Gilbert , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Jani Nikula , John Ogness , "Martin K. Petersen" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" , Suren Baghdasaryan , Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 040/201] sysctl: move some boundary constants from sysctl.c to sysctl_vals Message-ID: References: <20220727161026.977588183@linuxfoundation.org> <20220727161028.534205480@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220727161028.534205480@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: Luis Chamberlain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Xiaoming Ni > > [ Upstream commit 78e36f3b0dae586f623c4a37ec5eb5496f5abbe1 ] > > sysctl has helpers which let us specify boundary values for a min or max > int value. Since these are used for a boundary check only they don't > change, so move these variables to sysctl_vals to avoid adding duplicate > variables. This will help with our cleanup of kernel/sysctl.c. > > [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for "mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%"] > [mcgrof@kernel.org: major rebase] > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-3-mcgrof@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin I'm a bit puzzled. How / why is this a stable fix? Luis