From 0147fc058d11bd4009b126d09974d2c8f48fef15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:54:21 +0000 Subject: tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312) tcp_win_from_space() does the following: if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0) return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); else return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale); "space" is int. As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is undefined behaviour. Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32, space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0. Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf(). Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31]. Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312 Steps to reproduce: echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale wget www.kernel.org [softlockup] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index fe95105992c5..3c5e465296e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale), if it is <= 0. + Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive. Default: 2 tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING -- cgit v1.2.1