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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-11-27 17:17:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-11-27 17:17:40 -0800
commit8c39f71ee2019e77ee14f88b1321b2348db51820 (patch)
tree7650691ea267e84b942950c478df05a461e6733b /Documentation
parent95f1fa9e3418d50ce099e67280b5497b9c93843b (diff)
parentbac139a846697b290c74fefd6af54a9e192de315 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: "This is mostly to fix the iwlwifi regression: 1) Flush GRO state properly in iwlwifi driver, from Alexander Lobakin. 2) Validate TIPC link name with properly length macro, from John Rutherford. 3) Fix completion init and device query timeouts in ibmvnic, from Thomas Falcon. 4) Fix SKB size calculation for netlink messages in psample, from Nikolay Aleksandrov. 5) Similar kind of fix for OVS flow dumps, from Paolo Abeni. 6) Handle queue allocation failure unwind properly in gve driver, we could try to release pages we didn't allocate. From Jeroen de Borst. 7) Serialize TX queue SKB list accesses properly in mscc ocelot driver. From Yangbo Lu" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: net: usb: aqc111: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier net: phy: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier net: wireless: intel: iwlwifi: fix GRO_NORMAL packet stalling net: mscc: ocelot: use skb queue instead of skbs list net: mscc: ocelot: avoid incorrect consuming in skbs list gve: Fix the queue page list allocated pages count net: inet_is_local_reserved_port() port arg should be unsigned short openvswitch: fix flow command message size net: phy: dp83869: Fix return paths to return proper values net: psample: fix skb_over_panic net: usbnet: Fix -Wcast-function-type net: hso: Fix -Wcast-function-type net: port < inet_prot_sock(net) --> inet_port_requires_bind_service(net, port) ibmvnic: Serialize device queries ibmvnic: Bound waits for device queries ibmvnic: Terminate waiting device threads after loss of service ibmvnic: Fix completion structure initialization net-sctp: replace some sock_net(sk) with just 'net' net: Fix a documentation bug wrt. ip_unprivileged_port_start tipc: fix link name length check
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 099a55bd1432..fd26788e8c96 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -904,8 +904,9 @@ ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
second the last local port number.
- If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity.
- (one even and one odd values)
+ If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity
+ (one even and one odd value).
+ Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
@@ -943,8 +944,8 @@ ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
- To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not
- overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
+ To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. They must not
+ overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
Default: 1024