netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire

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Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 07:50:16 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Thiemo Nagel <tnagel@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:24 AM Thiemo Nagel <tnagel@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot, Eric!
>
> Grepping through the source, it seems to me there are two more
> occurrences of jiffies in inet_id:
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.3/net/dccp/ipv4.c#L120
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.3/net/dccp/ipv4.c#L419
>

Indeed.

The one in dccp_v4_connect() has been handled in my patch.
I missed it in dccp_v4_request_recv_sock()

Thanks.

> Kind regards,
> Thiemo