timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input
authorArun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:30:58 +0000 (10:00 +0530)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:49:33 +0000 (10:49 +0200)
commitbfdb4d9f0f611687d71cf6a460efc9e755f4a462
treed5a2ef0ccaa4da93ccb4275d8da80221788b2e48
parentd888a4c76c51092993643f8992bf55b3c28da483
timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input

Poornima Nayek reported:

| Timer migration interface /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration in
| 2.6.30-git9 accepts any numerical value as input.
|
| Steps to reproduce:
| 1. echo -6666666 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| -6666666
|
| 1. echo 44444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| 2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration
| -1357789412
|
| Expected behavior: Should 'echo: write error: Invalid argument' while
| setting any value other then 0 & 1

Restrict valid values to 0 and 1.

Reported-by: Poornima Nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Poornima Nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: poornima nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090623043058.GA3249@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sysctl.c