From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers
 to prevent integer overflows.
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:50:45 +0100
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
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	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Le mardi 07 d=C3=A9cembre 2010 =C3=A0 20:16 -0800, Greg KH a =C3=A9crit=
 :
> 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 ]
> >=20
> > 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 ab=
out
> > the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable
> > commit.
>=20
> 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_minm=
ax())