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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:52:04 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] proc/sysctl: Check for invalid flags bits
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:15:40 -0400 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:

> Checking code is added to check for invalid flags in the ctl_table
> and return error if an unknown flag is used.

Why?  What's wrong with the old code, what value does this change add,
etc.