From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756746Ab0JEVuM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:50:12 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58344 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844Ab0JEVuL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:50:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20101005.145032.25126909.davem@davemloft.net> To: holt@sgi.com Cc: w@1wt.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net Subject: Re: [Patch] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20101002112419.248437367@gulag1.americas.sgi.com> References: <20101002112405.951704198@gulag1.americas.sgi.com> <20101002112419.248437367@gulag1.americas.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Robin Holt Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 06:24:06 -0500 > Subject: [Patch] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows. > > On a 16TB x86_64 machine, sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2], and > sysctl_sctp_mem[2] can integer overflow. Set limit such that they are > maximized without overflowing. > > Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Robin please resubmit this with the SCTP bits included.