Commit 8133534c760d4083 ("net: limit tcp/udp rmem/wmem to
SOCK_{RCV,SND}BUF_MIN") modified four sysctls to enforce that the values
written to them are not less than SOCK_MIN_{RCV,SND}BUF.
That change causes 4096 to no longer be accepted as a valid value for
'min' in tcp_wmem and udp_wmem_min. 4096 has been the default for both
of those sysctls for a long time, and unfortunately seems to be an
extremely popular setting. This change breaks a large number of sysctl
configurations at Facebook.
That commit referred to b1cb59cf2efe7971 ("net: sysctl_net_core: check
SNDBUF and RCVBUF for min length"), which choose to use the SOCK_MIN
constants as the lower limits to avoid nasty bugs. But AFAICS, a limit
of SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF isn't necessary to do that: the BUG_ON cited in the
commit message seems to have happened because unix_stream_sendmsg()
expects a minimum of a full page (ie SK_MEM_QUANTUM) and the math broke,
not because it had less than SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF allocated.
This particular issue doesn't seem to affect TCP however: using a
setting of "1 1 1" for tcp_{r,w}mem works, although it's obviously
suboptimal. SK_MEM_QUANTUM would be a nice minimum, but it's 64K on
some archs, so there would still be breakage.
Since a value of one doesn't seem to cause any problems, we can drop the
minimum 8133534c added to fix this.
This reverts commit 8133534c760d4083f79d2cde42c636ccc0b2792e.
Fixes: 8133534c760d4083 ("net: limit tcp/udp rmem/wmem to SOCK_MIN...")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Cc: Sorin Dumitru <so...@returnze.ro>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinow...@fb.com>
---
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 433231c..0330ab2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ static int tcp_syn_retries_min = 1;
static int tcp_syn_retries_max = MAX_TCP_SYNCNT;
static int ip_ping_group_range_min[] = { 0, 0 };
static int ip_ping_group_range_max[] = { GID_T_MAX, GID_T_MAX };
-static int min_sndbuf = SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF;
-static int min_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF;
/* Update system visible IP port range */
static void set_local_port_range(struct net *net, int range[2])
@@ -530,7 +528,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_tcp_wmem),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &min_sndbuf,
+ .extra1 = &one,
},
{
.procname = "tcp_notsent_lowat",
@@ -545,7 +543,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_tcp_rmem),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &min_rcvbuf,
+ .extra1 = &one,
},
{
.procname = "tcp_app_win",
@@ -758,7 +756,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_udp_rmem_min),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &min_rcvbuf,
+ .extra1 = &one
},
{
.procname = "udp_wmem_min",
@@ -766,7 +764,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_udp_wmem_min),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &min_sndbuf,
+ .extra1 = &one
},
{ }
};
--
2.5.0
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