From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pj1-f70.google.com (mail-pj1-f70.google.com [209.85.216.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CAFBE38736E for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.216.70 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792213451; cv=none; b=hJR2rmLA2lRMy/Eza3n8du0FYq01j/oVlIScYcWoLN4n9RKekIOwrEEzWJDZMgw6/Nu1H4+Jb+kT7YV7nZ/eckn3S77fgmcfdelfr4n/sQQU6F6HHRir+OfAYVjksXfYay/0RqW6SnXTwWQOMK1olngXrZGA0ebxy6VVaOuRXLY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792213451; c=relaxed/simple; bh=8BLUOuobsXVPK0Hk4WClUwg69wNv/LObwP6VEuCQQpk=; h=Date:In-Reply-To:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:From: To:Cc:Content-Type; b=grU1S3FiOgMCt1x4PKjWPJq3/C+xfZFtXyeoQq8iXvPnsznkbbCgiHX33r29DMYor1XxLFnXWM6/4T539IQNbafebtx7SCo9E6BdWKI32cpgy+LKTE46HKUXeNohKQn/wCxpjjFiwj9PKGkedQJY4/OKSj7Z+zuEs88OoDaadjw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=google.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=flex--kuniyu.bounces.google.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=google.com header.i=@google.com header.b=vuFAi4DJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.216.70 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=google.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=flex--kuniyu.bounces.google.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=google.com header.i=@google.com header.b="vuFAi4DJ" Received: by mail-pj1-f70.google.com with SMTP id 98e67ed59e1d1-38f97b3f853so714463a91.3 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:04:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20251104; t=1792213449; x=1792818249; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=content-type:cc:to:from:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :in-reply-to:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to :content-type; bh=gV9/cHPnIlfRbaMaPitg64wMYECZnHJw7L0U4tqnfHE=; b=vuFAi4DJZ3XmakwcmpGKv0lcssWG4LtJUbgyNBHPfk0cJswBAE71rjmLlge6JknNij z7yxz4PyXTYr+H5tr/54ENmWbB3973pECVnzStvnUsRZ4aqYOAlo0cEtPVOVpMC4uuh5 QlpWLZIInRvg0LsOWmXAo7hcX8g8Km4gc1OYddz/KlNZ2fee6aVmHaJz+9c52KTu44oo euBZTJQjdAzKpE0JnjWfQXtIZqc+UI8HX7JkvTd/OGkbEI4VObrThX8hC85RKX29lk2r tr/047uTvpJTcwHheKedmxp0VyfUaa0OcEiIRkcmR/hZAMtZbd4Q8RsKLCfEw18NwtAJ bP+w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20260707; t=1792213449; x=1792818249; h=content-type:cc:to:from:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :in-reply-to:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to:content-type; bh=gV9/cHPnIlfRbaMaPitg64wMYECZnHJw7L0U4tqnfHE=; b=jpUYHy1yDcfVrwGqOKImZD9OxvutOa6mlHz/lg6CQEX3YGQm7mChf0Qudb3D6tRKnf yrbaBGkHsrP5s+Wu/g8BXgcn3nWBixYJXLnz5ZSPidNlWY6BnJumJPMZqKznG6QPPCdI B27aNSIjP/9+ItkOZG3Ufu2Tf9alwkMGV62FD30jYTHvX8VX01lppX2C0QFLS0TojDzH watSP1VARbBkV3aHByGKKkJDcXMdtjUEZ4B141uwf7aCmWeFdN6TUjYcJ+C9mVzFwqim YngJBJR6GDYJ8MvCVOYhgd6ZF/09sa8gFq4uD77210gSmU7UDRmPRe2JRh3gzzGmabaM Ju3w== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AKwUvBy6m2OEI1yxkrMRICuXxC5ylFKVPjyw3404/pydT0pW0CgVdBpjRrNv0ZJRwFhFPRhVj+cUq6DQWwQ=@vger.kernel.org X-Gm-Message-State: AFq9FYJL5a6M2ewvTAcsKCNzdVx0nWpFvt9SJjYODxrkDUomAxjPzSF3 xqb4LJLMnJ+yu4Dt2Dz5jcQZtbGxdiIUeoxMIT0gAUPpgy0TmGdCRZfgNltdZY82y0rNA5SUZwl v/PV7jw== X-Received: from plbkm15.prod.google.com ([2002:a17:903:27cf:b0:2e9:5442:b91a]) (user=kuniyu job=prod-delivery.src-stubby-dispatcher) by 2002:a17:903:22c1:b0:2e9:6788:9372 with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-2e9a6d3668fmr18323965ad.62.1792213448706; Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:04:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 References: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: unix: reject negative max_dgram_qlen values From: kuniyu@google.com To: Yingjie Wang <1075151112@qq.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, rdunlap@infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:02:58 +0800, Yingjie Wang wrote: > net.unix.max_dgram_qlen is parsed as a signed int and copied to the u32 > sock::sk_max_ack_backlog when an AF_UNIX socket is created. Consequently, > a negative value such as -1 is accepted and converted to UINT_MAX. Since > the receive queue length is also u32, its fullness check cannot become true > for that limit. > > max_dgram_qlen has no documented negative sentinel. Its existing signed > interface represents nonnegative values only through INT_MAX; negative bit > patterns are not a supported encoding for the upper half of the u32 > consumer range. > > Switch to proc_dointvec_minmax and make the established 0..INT_MAX input > range explicit. This rejects negative values without adding new accepted > values or changing the default and zero-value behavior. Very large valid > values can still make the queue limit impractical to reach; this change > corrects the input domain rather than imposing a new resource ceiling. > > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 > Signed-off-by: Yingjie Wang <1075151112@qq.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima