diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index d803c5c..353504d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
    2  : search cores in a package.
    3  : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system]
  ( 4  : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
- ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system])
+ ( 5  : search system wide [on NUMA system] )
 
 This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
 belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 039baa4..66103a1 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -1037,8 +1037,8 @@
 
 static int update_relax_domain_level(struct cpuset *cs, s64 val)
 {
-	if ((int)val < 0)
-		val = -1;
+	if (val < -1 || val >= SD_LV_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (val != cs->relax_domain_level) {
 		cs->relax_domain_level = val;
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index eaf6751..bb2c699 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6877,7 +6877,12 @@
 
 static int __init setup_relax_domain_level(char *str)
 {
-	default_relax_domain_level = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
+	unsigned long val;
+
+	val = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
+	if (val < SD_LV_MAX)
+		default_relax_domain_level = val;
+
 	return 1;
 }
 __setup("relax_domain_level=", setup_relax_domain_level);