netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK packet

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Message-Id: <20130408.152553.2156347442514600818.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pmoore@...hat.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mvadkert@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: assign the sock correctly to an outgoing SYNACK
 packet

From: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:22:50 -0400

> Contrary to popular belief, my goal is to not destroy the scalability and/or 
> performance of our network stack, I just want to make sure we have a quality 
> network stack that is not only fast and scalable, but also preserves the 
> security functionality that makes Linux attractive to a number of users.

Get the violin out.

> To that end, we could put a #ifdef in the middle of
> tcp_make_synack(), but that seems very ugly to me and I think sets a
> bad precedence for the network stack and kernel as a whole.

Not an ifdef, a run time state test.
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