[PATCH 4.9 77/93] ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Aug 09 2017 - 14:17:59 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ 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 <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
{