linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

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Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:28 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:02 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
> > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:47 -0400
> > 
> >> But it would be far more useful for whoever has been working on the
> >> stack to suggest some possible/likely commits to look at instead.
> > 
> > Personally all I see is that one side closes the socket before all
> > data packets received have been read into the application, resulting
> > in a (correct) reset going out.
> > 
> > I can't think of any change we've made over the course of this
> > release that would change behvaior in that area.
> > 
> > So you will likely need to bisect.
> ..
> 
> Or I can ignore it, like the net developers, since I have a workaround.
> And then we'll see what other apps are broken upon 2.6.25 final release.
> 
> Really, folks.  Bug reports are intended to *help* the developers,
> not something to be thrown back in their faces.
> 
> There do seem to have been a *lot* of changes around the tcp closing/close
> code (as I see from diff'ing 2.6.24 against latest -git).
> 
> *Somebody* is responsible for those changes.
> That particular *somebody* ought to volunteer some help here,
> reducing the mountain of commits to a big handful or two.
> 

Could you do a poor-man's bisect and test 2.6.25-rc1 and -rc2, that
would probably help a lot to narrow it down.

Harvey

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