netdev - Re: tp->copied_seq used before assignment in tcp_check

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:23:11 -0400
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     Zhongjie Wang <zwang048@....edu>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Zhiyun Qian <zhiyunq@...ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: tp->copied_seq used before assignment in tcp_check_urg

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:46 AM Zhongjie Wang <zwang048@....edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Neal,
>
> Thanks for your valuable feedback! Yes, I think you are right.
> It seems not a problem if tp->urg_data and tp->urg_seq are used together.
> From our test results, we can only see there are some paths requiring
> specific initial sequence number to reach.
> But as you said, it would not cause a difference in the code logic.
> We haven't observed any abnormal states.

Great. Thanks for confirming!

cheers,
neal