netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix a documentation bug wrt. ip_unprivileged_port

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Date:   Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:17:49 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix a documentation bug wrt.
 ip_unprivileged_port_start

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:12:04 -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> It cannot overlap with the local port range - ie. with autobind selectable
> ports - and not with reserved ports.
> 
> Indeed 'ip_local_reserved_ports' isn't even a range, it's a (by default
> empty) set.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Since this is a documentation _bug_ :) we probably need a Fixes tag.
The mistake is almost 3 years old, could be worth giving the backport
bots^W folks a chance to pick it up.

Is this all the way from 4548b683b781 ("Introduce a sysctl that
modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.") ?