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

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Message-Id: <20170809181338.775124756@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed,  9 Aug 2017 11:14:10 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@...tuozzo.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 77/93] ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int

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

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From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@...tuozzo.com>


[ 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@...tuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 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
 	{