On 03/12/2018 04:52 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:15:43PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> + if (clamped) >> + pr_warn_once("sysctl: \"sem[3]\" was set out of range [%d, %d], clamped to %d.\n", >> + 0, IPCMNI, ns->sc_semmni); > Why warn if the kernel already does that? If we can avoid more code on > drivers the better. > > Luis As said before, this case is special because "sem" is a collection of 4 different values. The last one is semmni which I tries to apply the same range clamping here, whereas the other 3 are left as they are. The standard proc_dointvec_minmax() handler cannot be used here because of that. I will clarify that in the commit log. Cheers, Longman