[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Michal Tesar <mtesar at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:09:01 +0200
Subject: 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 at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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",
--
1.8.1.2