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>
---
 include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index b7361f831226..795d5fea5697 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -212,4 +212,7 @@ static inline void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p,
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
 
+int sysctl_max_threads(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		       void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_SYSCTL_H */
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