netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sock: consistent handling of extreme SO_SNDBUF/SO

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Date:   Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:10:50 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gnault@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, mleitner@...hat.com, pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sock: consistent handling of extreme
 SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF values

From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:30:34 +0100

> SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF (and their *BUFFORCE version) may overflow or
> underflow their input value. This patch aims at providing explicit
> handling of these extreme cases, to get a clear behaviour even with
> values bigger than INT_MAX / 2 or lower than INT_MIN / 2.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>

Thank you so much for writing such a detailed commit message.

Applied.