Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:25:22 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.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@suse.de> wrote: >> > > >> > > From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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