This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: prevent setting ttl=0 via IP_TTL
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-prevent-setting-ttl-0-via-ip_ttl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 8c43c92f0eab26bd99c961aafdf1a183dc94ba7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:17:00 +0000
Subject: net: prevent setting ttl=0 via IP_TTL
From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit c9be4a5c49cf51cc70a993f004c5bb30067a65ce ]
A regression is introduced by the following commit:
commit 4d52cfbef6266092d535237ba5a4b981458ab171
Author: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Jun 2 00:42:16 2009 -0700
net: ipv4/ip_sockglue.c cleanups
Pure cleanups
but it is not a pure cleanup...
- if (val != -1 && (val < 1 || val>255))
+ if (val != -1 && (val < 0 || val > 255))
Since there is no reason provided to allow ttl=0, change it back.
Reported-by: nitin padalia <[email protected]>
Cc: nitin padalia <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ static int do_ip_setsockopt(struct sock
case IP_TTL:
if (optlen < 1)
goto e_inval;
- if (val != -1 && (val < 0 || val > 255))
+ if (val != -1 && (val < 1 || val > 255))
goto e_inval;
inet->uc_ttl = val;
break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.4/net-prevent-setting-ttl-0-via-ip_ttl.patch
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