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Date:	Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:43:16 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] suspicious indentation in do_tcp_setsockopt

(Adding Yuchung Cheng and Neal Cardwell as the
 author and acker of the patch)

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 00:20 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> What's the intent here ?
> 
> This ?

I think the first is most likely.

> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index b2f6c74..95544e4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -2454,10 +2454,11 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
>  	case TCP_THIN_DUPACK:
>  		if (val < 0 || val > 1)
>  			err = -EINVAL;
> -		else
> +		else {
>  			tp->thin_dupack = val;
>  			if (tp->thin_dupack)
>  				tcp_disable_early_retrans(tp);
> +		}
>  		break;
>  
>  	case TCP_REPAIR:
> 
> Or this ...
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> index b2f6c74..187c5a4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
> @@ -2456,8 +2456,9 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
>  			err = -EINVAL;
>  		else
>  			tp->thin_dupack = val;
> -			if (tp->thin_dupack)
> -				tcp_disable_early_retrans(tp);
> +
> +		if (tp->thin_dupack)
> +			tcp_disable_early_retrans(tp);
>  		break;
>  
>  	case TCP_REPAIR:
> 
> 
> I'll submit the right patch in the right form once I know what was intended.
> 
> The former seems more 'correct' to me, but I'm unsure if that could break something.
> 
> 	Dave
> 
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