This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int
to the 4.9-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:
ipv4-make-tcp_notsent_lowat-sysctl-knob-behave-as-true-unsigned-int.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Aug 9 10:32:06 PDT 2017
From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:45:49 +0300
Subject: ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int
From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit b007f09072ca8afa118ade333e717ba443e8d807 ]
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-1
> echo 4294967295 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> echo -2147483648 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-2147483648
but in documentation we have "tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER"
v2: simplify to just proc_douintvec
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[]
.data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_douintvec,
},
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ipv4-make-tcp_notsent_lowat-sysctl-knob-behave-as-true-unsigned-int.patch