netdev - Re: [Bug 94991] New: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific condition

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:53:11 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ncardwell@...gle.com
CC:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	matiasb@...il.com, ycheng@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 94991] New: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific
 condition

On 03/17/2015 06:44 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:49:49 -0400
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger
>> <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94991
>>>              Bug ID: 94991
>>>             Summary: TCP bug creates additional RTO in very specific
>>>                      condition
>>
>> Thanks for forwarding. I posted the following on the bug:
>>
>> 2.6.32 is over 5 years old (Dec 2009). I suspect this bug is in the
>> old FRTO code that Yuchung removed when he rewrote FRTO from scratch
>> in 2013. Can you please test a newer version of the kernel (preferably
>> 3.19 but at least 3.12 or newer) to see if this bug is still around?
>> Thanks!
>
> Stephen, if you're processing networking bugzilla entries in the
> future, don't even forward 2.6.x based stuff to the list please.

That's btw a RHEL6 kernel it seems (2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64).

Matias, you would need to open a BZ at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
for RHEL6 kernel component.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html