Patch "ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipv4-make-tcp_notsent_lowat-sysctl-knob-behave-as-true-unsigned-int.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Aug  9 10:32:06 PDT 2017
From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:45:49 +0300
Subject: ipv4: make tcp_notsent_lowat sysctl knob behave as true unsigned int

From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>


[ Upstream commit b007f09072ca8afa118ade333e717ba443e8d807 ]

> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-1
> echo 4294967295 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> echo -2147483648 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
-2147483648

but in documentation we have "tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER"

v2: simplify to just proc_douintvec
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[]
 		.data		= &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec,
 	},
 #ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
 	{


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.9/ipv4-make-tcp_notsent_lowat-sysctl-knob-behave-as-true-unsigned-int.patch