netdev - Re: Fw: [Bug 63321] tcp_fastretrans

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:45:51 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 63321] tcp_fastretrans_alert

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 17:26 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:43:45 -0800
> From: "bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org" <bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
> To: "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Subject: [Bug 63321] tcp_fastretrans_alert
> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63321
> 
> --- Comment #3 from root@...uritydot.net ---
> Once again someone is delaying a fix for a major issue causing a lot of
> trouble. Please fix it...
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2711
> tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x56c/0x580()
[...]
> CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: G        W    3.11.6-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64

I think this is fixed by:

commit 031afe4990a7c9dbff41a3a742c44d3e740ea0a1
Author: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 12 10:16:27 2013 -0700

    tcp: fix incorrect ca_state in tail loss probe

which went into 3.12-rc7 and then 3.11.7.

Ben.

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