netdev - [PATCH] ipv4: fix comment in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c to reference the correct RFC

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Message-Id: <1414984260-26020-1-git-send-email-roguelazer@roguelazer.com>
Date:	Sun,  2 Nov 2014 19:11:00 -0800
From:	James Brown <roguelazer@...uelazer.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Brown <roguelazer@...uelazer.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: fix comment in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c to reference the correct RFC

RFC 5691 has to do with MPEG surround-sound; RFC 5961 has to do
with hardening TCP against in-window spoofing attacks

Signed-off-by: James Brown <roguelazer@...uelazer.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index a12b455..d285962 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5028,7 +5028,7 @@ static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	/* step 3: check security and precedence [ignored] */
 
 	/* step 4: Check for a SYN
-	 * RFC 5691 4.2 : Send a challenge ack
+	 * RFC 5961 4.2 : Send a challenge ack
 	 */
 	if (th->syn) {
 syn_challenge:
-- 
2.1.2

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