Alexey Dobriyan 3ee75ac3c0 [PATCH] sysctl_{,ms_}jiffies: fix oldlen semantics
currently it's
1) if *oldlenp == 0,
	don't writeback anything

2) if *oldlenp >= table->maxlen,
	don't writeback more than table->maxlen bytes and rewrite *oldlenp
	don't look at underlying type granularity

3) if 0 < *oldlenp < table->maxlen,
		*cough*
	string sysctls don't writeback more than *oldlenp bytes.
	OK, that's because sizeof(char) == 1

	int sysctls writeback anything in (0, table->maxlen] range
	Though accept integers divisible by sizeof(int) for writing.

sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_ms_jiffies don't writeback anything but
sizeof(int), which violates 1) and 2).

So, make sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_ms_jiffies accept
a) *oldlenp == 0, not doing writeback
b) *oldlenp >= sizeof(int), writing one integer.

-EINVAL still returned for *oldlenp == 1, 2, 3.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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