netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Increment OUTRSTS in tcp_send_active

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sri@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Increment OUTRSTS in tcp_send_active_reset()

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:02:27 -0700

> TCP "resets sent" counter is not incremented when a TCP Reset is 
> sent via tcp_send_active_reset().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> index e399bde..23c22d4 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> @@ -2131,6 +2131,8 @@ void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *sk, gfp_t priority)
>  	TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when = tcp_time_stamp;
>  	if (tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 0, priority))
>  		NET_INC_STATS(LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTFAILED);
> + 
> +	TCP_INC_STATS(TCP_MIB_OUTRSTS);
>  }
>  
>  /* WARNING: This routine must only be called when we have already sent

Patch applied.

That line before the new TCP_INC_STATS() adds trailing whitespace.
I fixed it up this time, but please have all of these details sorted
out before posting patches in the future, thank you.
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