netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow user to create repair socket without window probes

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:30:04 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, sbaranoff@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, avagin@...tuozzo.com, xemul@...tuozzo.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: allow user to create repair socket without window
 probes



On 07/12/2018 02:34 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:31:10 -0400
> 
>> Under rare conditions where repair code may be used it is possible that
>> window probes are either unnecessary or undesired. If the user knows that
>> window probes are not wanted or needed this change allows them to skip
>> sending them when a socket comes out of repair.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@...il.com>
> 
> Applied.
> 


This buggy patch was added to net tree, it really should have been sent to net-next.

Stefan, please send a fix.

Thanks.