netdev - [PATCH] [net-next] tcp: avoid sending zero TSval

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:44:56 +0300
From:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [net-next] tcp: avoid sending zero TSval

Per RFC1323, zero TSecr is considered invalid. Thus we must avoid when
possible sending a zero TSval.

Currently, we use the least significant 32 bits of jiffies to fill in
TSval. But that can wrap around to zero (in 5 minutes after reboot,
and every 49 days after that in the worst case).

This patch approximate a wrap-around zero TSval to 1. This is better
then emitting a value which will be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
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 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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