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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt2
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 8313a636dd53..960de8fe3f40 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
-tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
+tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
per RFC4821.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index b92f422f2fa8..891ed2f91467 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ 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 comp_sack_nr_max = 255;
+static u32 u32_max_div_HZ = UINT_MAX / HZ;
/* obsolete */
static int sysctl_tcp_low_latency __read_mostly;
@@ -745,9 +746,10 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_net_table[] = {
{
.procname = "tcp_probe_interval",
.data = &init_net.ipv4.sysctl_tcp_probe_interval,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(u32),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_douintvec_minmax,
+ .extra2 = &u32_max_div_HZ,
},
{
.procname = "igmp_link_local_mcast_reports",