netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] inetpeer: fix token initialization

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:28:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] inetpeer: fix token initialization

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:18:36 +0200

> On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 16:11 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> When jiffies wraps around (for example, 5 minutes after the boot, see
>> INITIAL_JIFFIES) and peer has just been created, now - peer->rate_last can be
>> < XRLIM_BURST_FACTOR * timeout, so token is not set to the maximum value, thus
>> some icmp packets can be unexpectedly dropped.
>> 
>> Fix this case by initializing last_rate to 60 seconds in the past.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
>> ---
>> v2: fix initialization of peer instead of adding some tests in
>>     inet_peer_xrlim_allow()
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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