netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] syncookies: check decoded options against sysctl settings

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:03:09 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] syncookies: check decoded options against
 sysctl settings

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:34:35 +0200
> 
> > -	if (tcp_opt->sack_ok)
> > -		tcp_sack_reset(tcp_opt);
> > +	if (tcp_opt->sack_ok && !sysctl_tcp_sack)
> > +		return false;
> >  
> 
> If you remove the tcp_sack_reset() call here, who is going to
> do it?

Right, I should have mentioned that in the changelog, sorry about that.

Bottom line is that I failed to find out why its needed.
Both call sites of this function (cookie_v4_check, cookie_v6_check)
allocate the "struct tcp_options_received" argument on the stack, zero it,
hand it to tcp_parse_options() and then call cookie_check_timestamp().

I did not find any place in tcp_parse_options that would cause
tcp_opt->num_sacks/dsack to become nonzero.

Even if it can turn nonzero, I do not see any ill effects that might
happen then. The structure is on the stack and after tcp_parse_options()
returns only a few selected members are copied to the inet_request_sock.
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