sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool

[ Upstream commit a2071573d6346819cc4e5787b4206f2184985160 ]

This is to let bool variable could be correctly displayed in
big/little endian sysctl procfs. sizeof(bool) is arch dependent,
proc_dobool should work in all arches.

Suggested-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
[thuth: rebased the patch to the current kernel version]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Jia He
2021-08-03 12:59:36 +02:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 130dcbf77a
commit f469e60f9a
2 changed files with 44 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ typedef int proc_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void *buffer,
size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
int proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int proc_dobool(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int proc_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *, loff_t *);