netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: provide more information on the tcp receive

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Message-Id: <20091113.135655.212863096.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:56:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, arjan@...radead.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: provide more information on the tcp receive_queue
 bugs

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:19:18 +0200 (EET)

> The addition of rcv_nxt allows to discern whether the skb
> was out of place or tp->copied. Also catch fancy combination
> of flags if necessary (sadly we might miss the actual causer
> flags as it might have already returned).
> 
> Btw, we perhaps would want to forward copied_seq in
> somewhere or otherwise we might have some nice loop with
> WARN stuff within but where to do that safely I don't
> know at this stage until more is known (but it is not
> made significantly worse by this patch).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks a lot!
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