netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: reinitialize MTU probing when setting MSS in a TCP repair

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 12:29:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     douglascs@...hos.com.br
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: reinitialize MTU probing when setting MSS in a
 TCP repair

From: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@...hos.com.br>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 14:28:00 -0300

> From: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@...hos.com.br>
> 
> MTU probing initialization occurred only at connect() and at SYN or
> SYN-ACK reception, but the former sets MSS to either the default or the
> user set value (through TCP_MAXSEG sockopt) and the latter never happens
> with repaired sockets.
> 
> The result was that, with MTU probing enabled and unless TCP_MAXSEG
> sockopt was used before connect(), probing would be stuck at
> tcp_base_mss value until tcp_probe_interval seconds have passed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@...hos.com.br>

This seems fine to me, as long as you call tcp_mtup_init() after setting
the mss_clamp, whichy you are, everything should be alright.

Applied, thanks.