netdev - Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:33:39 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff.chua.linux@...il.com,
	rjw@...k.pl, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8 breaks rlogin

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:28:06PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, what happens if a opposite dir ACK gets sent (it's zero sized seqno
> > range will be above urgent sequence when urg is not yet acknowledged)? So
> > we'll take the later branch after your change and send bogus 0xffff urg?
> > I think you're change might have actually broken bidir tcp completely (and
> > probably window probing as well under some conditions). Congraz, two flies
> > with a single stroke :-). You would have needed an additional check that
> > the tcb->seq is below urg...
> > 
> > ...Below is a patch but Jeff might need to revert the revert first if
> > he tests with the latest Linus' tree.
> 
> Good point! That would definitely explain this.

Actually, I don't see how we can have tcp_urg_mode being true
when his strace shows no OOB data at all (it only did write
and writev).

So I'm not sure if this bug is the one causing this.

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