On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:31:37AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: update it for "mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%"] > > [mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx: major rebase] > > > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-3-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm a bit puzzled. How / why is this a stable fix? I think it's needed by a patch later in the series. Sasha, can you verify? thanks, greg k-h
