Re: [PATCH] tcp: avoid a possible divide by zero

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 09:23 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit :

> Are there so many sysctls which are likely to freeze the kernel when fed 
> with wrong value? Once could argue for sysctls where invalid values don't 
> cause any serious harm, its not so important to fix it. I probably could 
> have next weeks training members a go at poking creative values in other 
> controls as well to see what happens.
> 

We have many sysctls that can lead to non working machine.

Any kind of limits actually. Just set them to 0 (or maybe a negative
number :( )

0 socket, 0 file descriptor, 0 memory, 0 speed limit, 0 lengthes ...



> So this patch helps other cases as well? Or is it, as I think just a 
> different approach, to fix the issue my training member brought up, by its 
> cause instead of or additional to limiting its range?
> 
> Want to check whether I basically understood the patch. Do you want me to 
> test it? 

It has nothing to do with the issue you raised, and is a completely
different subject. I got it while spending 5 minutes yesterday night
grep-ing some sysctls in network tree. 0 value is one of expected value
for this sysctl, but the test was not safe.