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[124/133] sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary

Message ID 1376692475-28413-125-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Aug. 16, 2013, 10:34 p.m. UTC 
3.8.13.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Tesar <mtesar@redhat.com>

[ 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index d84400b..63632ea 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@  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 };
 
@@ -330,7 +332,9 @@  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",