netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] sctp: fix association hangs due to reassembly/ordering logic

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Message-ID: <512E6052.6050301@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:36:50 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	"Lee A. Roberts" <lee.roberts@...com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] sctp: fix association hangs due to reassembly/ordering
 logic

On 02/27/2013 07:54 PM, Lee A. Roberts wrote:
> From: "Lee A. Roberts" <lee.roberts@...com>
>
> This series of patches resolves several SCTP association hangs observed during
> SCTP stress testing.  Observable symptoms include communications hangs with
> data being held in the association reassembly and/or lobby (ordering) queues.
> Close examination of reassembly/ordering queues may show either duplicated
> or missing packets.

Just nitpicking here ... all of your 4 patches have the same first paragraph,
which can actually be left out completely if it is already in your patch cover
letter stated.

> Lee A. Roberts (4):
>    sctp: fix association hangs due to off-by-one errors in
>      sctp_tsnmap_grow()
>    sctp: fix association hangs due to reneging packets below the
>      cumulative TSN ACK point
>    sctp: fix association hangs due to errors when reneging events from
>      the ordering queue
>    sctp: fix association hangs due to partial delivery errors
>
>   net/sctp/tsnmap.c   |   13 ++++----
>   net/sctp/ulpqueue.c |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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