From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Correct type of tcp_syncookies sysctl.
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 09:01:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200103080144.GC12930@netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200102.160818.1273976528943190177.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 04:08:18PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> It can take on the values of '0', '1', and '2' and thus
> is not a boolean.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
> ---
> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Applied and pushed out to 'net'.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> index fd26788e8c96..48ccb1b31160 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
> @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
> with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
> for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
>
> -tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
> +tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
> Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
> Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
> overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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2020-01-03 0:08 [PATCH] net: Correct type of tcp_syncookies sysctl David Miller
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