[INET]: Justification for local port range robustness.

  There is a justifying patch for Stephen's patches. Stephen's patches
disallows using a port range of one single port and brakes the meaning
of the 'remaining' variable, in some places it has different meaning.
My patch gives back the sense of 'remaining' variable. It should mean
how many ports are remaining and nothing else. Also my patch allows
using a single port.

  I sure we must be able to use mentioned port range, this does not
restricted by documentation and does not brake current behavior.

usefull links:
Patches posted by Stephen Hemminger
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119206106218187&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119206109918235&w=2

Andrew Morton's comment
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119248225007737&w=2

1. Allows using a port range of one single port.
2. Gives back sense of 'remaining' variable.

Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index c78acc1a7f11..ffddd2b45352 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static int ipv4_local_port_range(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
         ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&tmp, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
         if (write && ret == 0) {
-                if (range[1] <= range[0])
+                if (range[1] < range[0])
                         ret = -EINVAL;
                 else
                         set_local_port_range(range);
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int ipv4_sysctl_local_port_range(ctl_table *table, int __user *name,
 
         ret = sysctl_intvec(&tmp, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
         if (ret == 0 && newval && newlen) {
-                if (range[1] <= range[0])
+                if (range[1] < range[0])
                         ret = -EINVAL;
                 else
                         set_local_port_range(range);