netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/5] [TCP]: Discard fuzzy SACK blocks

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] [TCP]: Discard fuzzy SACK blocks

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:16:32 +0300

> SACK processing code has been a sort of russian roulette as no
> validation of SACK blocks is previously attempted. Besides, it
> is not very clear what all kinds of broken SACK blocks really
> mean (e.g., one that has start and end sequence numbers
> reversed). So now close the roulette once and for all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Thanks a lot for coding this up, I like it a lot, applied.

I have some minor worries about the D-SACK lower bound, but
it's probably OK and I'm just being paranoid :-)
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