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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Sven Wegener wrote: > Negative values will be converted to MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET by msecs_to_jiffies and > result in a very long interval. A too long interval will be a good way to get > your system OOM. We could use an unsigned int or even restrict the value with > proc_dointvec_minmax. I'd prefer the latter, that's what I already had in my > mind and it also protects from unintentionally choosing a too long interval. > Yeah, you're definitely going to want an upper bound on acceptable values and not allow anything negative for the aforementioned reason. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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