Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:45:01AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/53247; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Roy Marples" <roy%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 09:43:59 +0000
> 
>  Module Name:	src
>  Committed By:	roy
>  Date:		Fri May 11 09:43:59 UTC 2018
>  
>  Modified Files:
>  	src/sys/kern: uipc_usrreq.c
>  	src/sys/net: raw_cb.h
>  	src/sys/netinet6: in6_proto.c
>  
>  Log Message:
>  Increase the default size of some receive buffers from 8k to 16k.
>  This mitigates recent reports of socket overflow errors
>  and fixes PR bin/53247.
>  
>  
>  To generate a diff of this commit:
>  cvs rdiff -u -r1.185 -r1.186 src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c
>  cvs rdiff -u -r1.28 -r1.29 src/sys/net/raw_cb.h
>  cvs rdiff -u -r1.124 -r1.125 src/sys/netinet6/in6_proto.c
>  
>  Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
>  copyright notices on the relevant files.

I've tested the dhcpcd patch alone and the dhcpcd patch plus the
kernel buffer size patch, but I have not tested the kernel buffer size
patch alone.  I've reverted the change to my local version of dhcpcd
and will now test to see that the buffer size increase alone is
sufficient.


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