netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix corrupt TCP packets when options space overflows with MD5SIG enabled

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Date:	Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:56:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	agl@...erialviolet.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corrupt TCP packets when options space overflows
 with MD5SIG enabled

From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:40:15 +1000 (EST)

> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Adam Langley wrote:
> 
> > When MD5 signatures are turned on we can end up with syntactically invalid
> > packets with a header length < 20 bytes. This is because tcp_header_size
> > overflows with 12 bytes of timestamp, 20 bytes of signature and > 8 bytes of
> > SACK option.
> > 
> > Since we can't fit any SACK blocks in the final 8 bytes of options space, and
> > the MD5 signature is more important, we disable including SACK, or even
> > advertising it, when MD5 is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@...erialviolet.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

After making some minor coding style fixups, I applied this
fix, thanks everyone.
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