Revert "net: limit tcp/udp rmem/wmem to SOCK_{RCV,SND}BUF_MIN"

jcalvinowens · davem330 · commit 5d37852bf7d4 · 2015-08-17T12:10:30.000-07:00
Commit 8133534 ("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 b1cb59c ("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 8133534 added to fix this. This reverts commit 8133534. Fixes: 8133534 ("net: limit tcp/udp rmem/wmem to SOCK_MIN...") Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sorin Dumitru <sorin@returnze.ro> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git 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",
@@ -758,15 +756,15 @@ 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",
 		.data		= &sysctl_udp_wmem_min,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_udp_wmem_min),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
-		.extra1		= &min_sndbuf,
+		.extra1		= &one
 	},
 	{ }
 };
