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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:25:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] x86/vdso: Sanitize vdso*_enabled handling
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > +static int vdso32_sysctl;
> > +
> > +static int vdso_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> > +                              void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
> > +                              loff_t *ppos)
> > +{
> > +       int ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> 
> Using a global for the temporary is gross and mildly racy.  I would
> just open-code the conversion.  Or, even better, add proc_dobool().

Dammit, thought about it and then got lazy. :(

Thanks,

	tglx