Here is an problem that was brought to my attention and I noticed
it was not fixed in any of the upstream kernels I looked at.
steved.
A trivial patch that allows the setting of NLM timeouts and grace periods
through the proc and sysclt interfaces on x86_64 architectures
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6.12.2/fs/lockd/svc.c.orig 2005-06-29 19:00:53.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.12.2/fs/lockd/svc.c 2005-07-08 14:26:41.671010000 -0400
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ static ctl_table nlm_sysctls[] = {
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "nlm_grace_period",
.data = &nlm_grace_period,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
.extra1 = (unsigned long *) &nlm_grace_period_min,
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static ctl_table nlm_sysctls[] = {
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "nlm_timeout",
.data = &nlm_timeout,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
.extra1 = (unsigned long *) &nlm_timeout_min,
