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authorWeitao Hou <houweitaoo@gmail.com>2019-07-16 16:26:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-16 19:23:21 -0700
commit65f50f255349959f15f2761abd17ead8530b2f33 (patch)
treeaf1d81200c2deebfdb4aa7be21c9af562c94f817 /kernel
parent5ec27ec735ba0477d48c80561cc5e856f0c5dfaf (diff)
kernel: fix typos and some coding style in comments
fix lenght to length Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190521050937.4370-1-houweitaoo@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Weitao Hou <houweitaoo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 1c1ad1e14f21..43186ccfa139 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -188,17 +188,17 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning;
* enum sysctl_writes_mode - supported sysctl write modes
*
* @SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY: each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value
- * to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
- * will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning
- * is issued when the initial position is not 0.
+ * to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
+ * will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning
+ * is issued when the initial position is not 0.
* @SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN: same as above but warn when the initial file position is
- * not 0.
+ * not 0.
* @SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT: writes to numeric sysctl entries must always be at
- * file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer
- * sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file
- * position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything
- * passed the max lenght will be ignored. Multiple writes will append
- * to the buffer.
+ * file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer
+ * sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file
+ * position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything
+ * passed the max length will be ignored. Multiple writes will append
+ * to the buffer.
*
* These write modes control how current file position affects the behavior of
* updating sysctl values through the proc interface on each write.