[PATCH v2] ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int

From: Pavel Tikhomirov
Date: Mon Jan 09 2017 - 02:46:47 EST


> 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 <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 80bc36b..566cfc5 100644
--- 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
{
--
2.9.3