Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753182AbdHISRz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:17:55 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57582 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752882AbdHISPj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:15:39 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Tikhomirov , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 77/93] ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 11:14:10 -0700 Message-Id: <20170809181338.775124756@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.0 In-Reply-To: <20170809181335.658857427@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170809181335.658857427@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 40 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Pavel Tikhomirov [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 {