netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix syncookie regression

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:30:57 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ncardwell@...gle.com, sim@...nation.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix syncookie regression

On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 15:59 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:37:31 -0700
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 12:44 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> > 
> >> Yes, exactly. 3.2.9 and 3.2.10 have
> >> daef52bab1fd26e24e8e9578f8fb33ba1d0cb412 but not the
> >> 4648dc97af9d496218a05353b0e442b3dfa6aaab that fixes the resulting
> >> issue with sacked_out going negative, and these lines you've flagged
> >> are exactly the symptoms we'd expect because of that. The fix is
> >> queued up for the -stable series already, so it should be in 3.2.11, I
> >> presume. The fix is already in 3.3-rc7.
> > 
> > 3.2.12 more probably, as 3.2.11 is a single build fix
> 
> The syncookie regression fix isn't even pushed to Linus's tree yet,
> and once it's there it still needs to cook for a few more days before
> I'm willing to sent it to -stable.

Yeah, discussion diverged from tcp syncookie to other stuff (tcp at
least ;) )





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