This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sysctl-net-keep-tcp_syn_retries-inside-the-boundary.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9867786ec64adfff23fc71dd88dc71b9299629e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Tesar <mtesar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:09:01 +0200
Subject: sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary
From: Michal Tesar <mtesar@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 651e92716aaae60fc41b9652f54cb6803896e0da ]
Limit the min/max value passed to the
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries.
Signed-off-by: Michal Tesar <mtesar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ static int tcp_adv_win_scale_min = -31;
static int tcp_adv_win_scale_max = 31;
static int ip_ttl_min = 1;
static int ip_ttl_max = 255;
+static int tcp_syn_retries_min = 1;
+static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT;
static int ip_ping_group_range_min[] = { 0, 0 };
static int ip_ping_group_range_max[] = { GID_T_MAX, GID_T_MAX };
@@ -276,7 +278,9 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.data = &sysctl_tcp_syn_retries,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &tcp_syn_retries_min,
+ .extra2 = &tcp_syn_retries_max
},
{
.procname = "tcp_synack_retries",
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mtesar@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/sysctl-net-keep-tcp_syn_retries-inside-the-boundary.patch
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