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authorMichal Tesar <mtesar@redhat.com>2013-07-19 14:09:01 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-11 15:38:44 -0700
commitf31dfea03c3500dbf43d29c12f4bfcefc87a6557 (patch)
treefa37d46bb3a9ad8c79067b21168e94038f5821b5
parentc062773fe4a98d935335b75e75c0d1a14a29b680 (diff)
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sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary
[ Upstream commit 651e92716aaae60fc41b9652f54cb6803896e0da ] Limit the min/max value passed to the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries. Signed-off-by: Michal Tesar <mtesar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index bf7a604c695c..086c97327b9b 100644
--- 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",