netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Check the argument for listen(2)

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Message-ID: <1372438104.3301.290.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:48:24 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Check the argument for listen(2)

On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 18:34 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> Nonsense, somaxconn would make more sense.
> 


If we keep u16, we could limit the sysctl (somaxconn,
tcp_max_syn_backlog) limits to 65535



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