Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752741Ab0LHFvA (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:51:00 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:48483 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165Ab0LHFu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:50:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=tz6TYpk9BZ9upGeL/hBUigxa63XnDRVNfUojQGup8NZQRGjFMR1pyBDUzeilldyI25 7t9a5/8fscaa+QnvZDcOyXzcd0y+Hd2omQG2jM76ec8mvPX/dDigb2ayYOFb3MMNVsXr nqIc6RsKT8Th4SO14yMNMYjxn1ZQsiWmP2Vgc= Subject: Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows. From: Eric Dumazet To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , stable-review@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Robin Holt , Willy Tarreau , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov , "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy , Vlad Yasevich , Sridhar Samudrala In-Reply-To: <20101208041656.GA2291@suse.de> References: <20101208003205.GA4286@kroah.com> <20101208000642.975564500@clark.site> <20101208041656.GA2291@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:50:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1291787445.5324.64.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 31 Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 20:16 -0800, Greg KH a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > From: Robin Holt > > > > > > [ Problem was fixed differently upstream. -DaveM ] > > > > Gaah. I'd really like to see more of a description for things like > > this. A commit ID for the alternate fix, or at least a few words about > > the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable > > commit. > > I'll let David confirm this, he's the one who sent it to me :) upstream uses commit 8d987e5c7510 (net: avoid limits overflow) This commit is a bit more untrusive for stable kernels : It depends on : a9febbb4bd13 (sysctl: min/max bounds are optional) 27b3d80a7b6a (sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/