linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!"

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Message-Id: <20081218.160815.106790562.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:08:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	mpm@...enic.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!"

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:33:46 +0200 (EET)

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > These debug messages are uninformative and extremely alarming. Rather
> > than reporting a peer as a treacherous attacker, report it more
> > correctly as simply broken. 
> 
> Last time (well, ignoring some report on ancient vendor kernel) I've seen 
> this to trigger it wasn't the fault of the peer but ours (we sent past the 
> advertized window and window ended up being shrunk to zero). I agree that 
> the message as-is is not very good but your change is not very good 
> either.
 ...
> This won't apply to net-next on which you should base anything new (and 
> net related).

Agreed.
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