On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 12:41:11PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > What? > ===== > > Stage table->data when writing INT & ULONG ctl_tables. Commit staged > data to kernel variable only when all the conversions have succeeded. > This is applicable only to variables that represent a vector; paths > pertaining to scalers are left unchanged. Notice that partial updates > can still happen if less than the size of the vector are passed and > correctly formatted. ... snip ... > sysctl: Split data conversion and file position handling > sysctl: Reject uint arrays before calling the general proc_vec > sysctl: Disallow partial updates for erroneous sysctl vectors > sysctl: Add 0013 to test partially updated vectors > > kernel/sysctl.c | 237 > ++++++++++++++++++++----------- > tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh | 60 ++++++++ > 2 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) > --- > base-commit: 4c12287001da60f3c022bb25932aa7a5590fc0b1 > change-id: 20260813-lklm-partial_ctlvec-bd8867b70d5c > > Best regards, > -- > Joel Granados <[email protected]> > >
I feel the superficial changes mentioned in the review (up until now) do not merit me sending a V3. The modified tree is here [1]. Best [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joel.granados/linux.git/log/?h=jag/partial_ctlvec
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
