From 16db3d3f1170fb0efca652c9378ce7c5f5cb4232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:47:50 -0700
Subject: kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits

Users can change the maximum number of threads by writing to
/proc/sys/kernel/threads-max.

With the patch the value entered is checked against the same limits that
apply when fork_init is called.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 42b7fc2860c1..3c0998426b57 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -93,11 +93,9 @@
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
 #endif
 
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
 
 /* External variables not in a header file. */
-extern int max_threads;
 extern int suid_dumpable;
 #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
 extern int core_uses_pid;
@@ -710,10 +708,10 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 #endif
 	{
 		.procname	= "threads-max",
-		.data		= &max_threads,
+		.data		= NULL,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= sysctl_max_threads,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "random",
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