netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: warn on negative reordering values

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2017 16:56:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     soheil.kdev@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, soheil@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com,
        ycheng@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: warn on negative reordering values

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:39:02 -0400

> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> 
> Commit bafbb9c73241 ("tcp: eliminate negative reordering
> in tcp_clean_rtx_queue") fixes an issue for negative
> reordering metrics.
> 
> To be resilient to such errors, warn and return
> when a negative metric is passed to tcp_update_reordering().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.