netdev - Re: [Bug 32322] New: Kernel crashes randomly due to unknown reason

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Message-Id: <20110401.214755.212694098.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:47:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	henrick19777@...oo.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 32322] New: Kernel crashes randomly due to unknown reason

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:37:21 +0300 (EEST)

> [PATCH] tcp: len check is unnecessarily devastating, change to WARN_ON
> 
> All callers are prepared to alloc failures anyway, so this error
> can safely be boomeranged to the callers domain without super
> bad consequences. ...At worst the connection might go into a state
> where each RTO tries to (unsuccessfully) re-fragment with such
> a mis-sized value and eventually dies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied.
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