netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes

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Message-Id: <20150204.160817.1551916015584303515.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:08:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sasha.levin@...cle.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chien.yen@...cle.com,
	rds-devel@....oracle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and
 bytes

From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2015 08:55:58 -0500

> Max unacked packets/bytes is an int while sizeof(long) was used in the
> sysctl table.
> 
> This means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory
> to userspace along with the timeout values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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