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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 18:35:25 -0700
commitc41d4725934c8a747c8157252ea53d76a0fdaece (patch)
tree04471181033da9f0eaa85346f2297cf6fceba4f7 /net
parent773c8fef67aa54c6533b26d5a162a1a3531e1d9f (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-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 fa2f63fc453..3f25e75ae69 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ 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 };
@@ -331,7 +333,9 @@ 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",