From 651e92716aaae60fc41b9652f54cb6803896e0da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Tesar Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:09:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sysctl net: Keep tcp_syn_retries inside the boundary Limit the min/max value passed to the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries. Signed-off-by: Michal Tesar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 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 b2c123c44d69..610e324348d1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ 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 }; @@ -332,7 +334,9 @@ 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",