setsockopt() doubles SO_RCVBUF

Hello,

In a project, I'm working on, I need to set the socket receive buffer size, so I used
setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, ...). To make sure, it worked properly, I read the size back with getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, ...). I was surprised to find, that the value read back was always twice the size of, what I (tried to) set it to - up to twice the size of rmem_max.

I found the cause of this behaviour in net/core/sock.c, which contains the following lines of code in sock_setsockopt:

                case SO_RCVBUF:
                        /* Don't error on this BSD doesn't and if you

think
about it this is right. Otherwise apps have
to
play 'guess the biggest size' games.
RCVBUF/SNDBUF

                           are treated in BSD as hints */
                          
                        if (val > sysctl_rmem_max)
                                val = sysctl_rmem_max;

                        sk->userlocks |= SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK;
                        /* FIXME: is this lower bound the right one? */
                        if ((val * 2) < SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF)
                                sk->rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF;
                        else
                                sk->rcvbuf = (val * 2);
                        break;

Is it intentional, that val is doubled?

Regards,
Anders K. Pedersen

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:31:34PM +0200, Anders K. Pedersen wrote:

Is it intentional, that val is doubled?

Yes.

--cw