On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@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(). I'm not convinced that the current patch is a cleanup. --Andy