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SubjectRe: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows.
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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.
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