netdev - Re: [TCP]: fack_counts more fixes (the previous ones were incomplete)

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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:15:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, reuben-linuxkernel@...b.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [TCP]: fack_counts more fixes (the previous ones were
 incomplete)

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:43:24 +0200 (EET)

> [PATCH] [TCP]: fack_counts more fixes (the previous ones were incomplete)
> 
> 1) Prev NULL check should also dereference
> 
> 2) The loop reorganization did make things only slightly better,
>    just changing the same not-updated problem to occur in
>    another scenario. And I also noticed that in worst case it
>    would be an infinite loop (could do that also before the
>    change), but it required losses in the same window when TCP
>    runs out new data. Now check really against the list heads
>    rather than a valid skb which should still be processed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied, thanks Ilpo.
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