netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20081226023828.GA12266@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:38:28 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, ptesarik@...e.cz,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:00:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> So it all hinges on how the receiver updates his URG pointer.  This is
> what legitimizes a sender advertising a changing URG pointer.

Pretty much.

> So it works, but it isn't the nicest thing in the world :-)

It would've been nice and simple had the original implementors
strictly followed RFC793 and done the out-of-band notifications
instead of coming up with their fanciful notions of out-of-band
data :)

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html