netdev - Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows.

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Date:	Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:25:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, holt@....com, w@....eu,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com, sri@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers
 to prevent integer overflows.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:50:45 +0100

> Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 20:16 -0800, Greg KH a écrit :
>> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > From: Robin Holt <holt@....com>
>> > >
>> > > [ Problem was fixed differently upstream. -DaveM ]
>> > 
>> > Gaah. I'd really like to see more of a description for things like
>> > this. A commit ID for the alternate fix, or at least a few words about
>> > the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable
>> > commit.
>> 
>> I'll let David confirm this, he's the one who sent it to me :)
> 
> upstream uses commit 8d987e5c7510 (net: avoid limits overflow)
> 
> This commit is a bit more untrusive for stable kernels :
> 
> It depends on :
> a9febbb4bd13 (sysctl: min/max bounds are optional)
> 27b3d80a7b6a (sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax())

Yep, this is the case.  Greg, you can add a reference to:

a9febbb4bd13
27b3d80a7b6a
8d987e5c7510

in my "[ ... ]" in the commit message to clear this up.
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