netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] [SCTP] Set assoc_id correctly during INIT collision.

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2007 13:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] [SCTP] Set assoc_id correctly during INIT
 collision.

From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Date: Fri,  4 May 2007 16:22:54 -0400

> During the INIT/COOKIE-ACK collision cases, it's possible to get
> into a situation where the association id is not yet set at the time
> of the user event generation.  As a result, user events have an
> association id set to 0 which will confuse applications.
> 
> This happens if we hit case B of duplicate cookie processing.
> In the particular example found and provided by Oscar Isaula
> <Oscar.Isaula@...orola.com>, flow looks like this:
> A				B
> ---- INIT------->  (lost)
> 	    <---------INIT------
> ---- INIT-ACK--->
> 	    <------ Cookie ECHO
> ---

I suspect this changelog message was truncated because the
sign offs are not here, could you regenerate this?

Thanks.
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