netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE

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Date:	Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:38:27 +1000
From:	Max Matveev <makc@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunks

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:17:47 -0400 (EDT), David Miller wrote:

 davem> From: Max Matveev <makc@...hat.com>
 davem> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:02:24 +1000

 >> Attempt to reduce the number of IP packets emitted in response to single
 >> SCTP packet (2e3216cd) introduced a complication - if a packet contains
 >> two COOKIE_ECHO chunks and nothing else then SCTP state machine corks the
 >> socket while processing first COOKIE_ECHO and then loses the association
 >> and forgets to uncork the socket. To deal with the issue add new SCTP
 >> command which can be used to set association explictly. Use this new
 >> command when processing second COOKIE_ECHO chunk to restore the context
 >> for SCTP state machine.
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@...hat.com>

 davem> Applied, but there were a ton of whitespace errors that GIT complained
 davem> about and I had to fix up.

Sorry about it - I did check it with checkpatch.pl and it was happy:
must've been the mailer.

max
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