Commit a2b1c94f authored Feb 02, 2024 by Jon Maxwell Committed by Ziyang Xuan Feb 02, 2024

ipv6: Document that max_size sysctl is deprecated

mainline inclusion
from mainline-v6.3-rc1
commit 695a376b
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/I8ZGOZ
CVE: CVE-2023-52340

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=695a376b59f72c249caad40da64d5cce239c5f48



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v4: fix deprecated typo.

Document that max_size is deprecated due to:

commit af6d1034 ("ipv6: remove max_size check inline with ipv4")

Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230120232331.1273881-1-jmaxwell37@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>

parent bedeb627

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst

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		@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ route/max_size - INTEGER
		From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
		as route cache is no longer used.

		From linux kernel 6.3 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv6
		as garbage collection manages cached route entries.

		neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
		Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
		purge entries if there are fewer than this number.