tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT negative value check
authorHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:52:21 +0000 (22:52 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:15:24 +0000 (18:15 +0100)
commitdf7ba2e6620095039c0aa42af7de1ec565eca2eb
tree8bbbb161c103084ff8f3f046f4670db0d8a1a1d2
parent761bfbd36cbff87f2d04502b66a363507a08ad33
tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT negative value check

[ Upstream commit 42493570100b91ef663c4c6f0c0fdab238f9d3c2 ]

TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is a TCP level socket option that takes an unsigned int. But
patch "tcp: Add TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option"(dca43c75) didn't check the negative
values. If a user assign -1 to it, the socket will set successfully and wait
for 4294967295 miliseconds. This patch add a negative value check to avoid
this issue.

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/ipv4/tcp.c