netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix TCP_MAXSEG for established IPv6 passive sockets

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Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:10:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ncardwell@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	nanditad@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	maze@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix TCP_MAXSEG for established IPv6 passive
 sockets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:14:54 +0200

> On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 15:45 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
>> Commit f5fff5d forgot to fix TCP_MAXSEG behavior IPv6 sockets, so IPv6
>> TCP server sockets that used TCP_MAXSEG would find that the advmss of
>> child sockets would be incorrect. This commit mirrors the advmss logic
>> from tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock. Eventually this
>> logic should probably be shared between IPv4 and IPv6, but this at
>> least fixes this issue.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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