Subject: Re: [Patch] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to prevent integer overflows.

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:50:55 -0700 (PDT)

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:22:16 +0200

> [PATCH] net: avoid limits overflow
> 
> Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were
> reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2]
> 
> We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now
> atomic_long_t primitives are available for free.
> 
> Reported-by: Robin Holt <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>

Eric please resubmit this when the sysctl fix is resolved.

Thanks.