We want to start at 0 and do not care about the updated value. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 317899222d7f..be9c46833aa5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -1754,7 +1754,6 @@ static int process_sysctl_arg(char *param, char *val, struct file *file; int len; int err; - loff_t pos = 0; ssize_t wret; if (strncmp(param, "sysctl", sizeof("sysctl") - 1) == 0) { @@ -1812,7 +1811,7 @@ static int process_sysctl_arg(char *param, char *val, goto out; } len = strlen(val); - wret = kernel_write(file, val, len, &pos); + wret = kernel_write(file, val, len, NULL); if (wret < 0) { err = wret; if (err == -EINVAL) -- 2.28.0