netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] mptcp: add syncookie support

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Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:56:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     fw@...len.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com, matthieu.baerts@...sares.net,
        pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] mptcp: add syncookie support

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:25:49 +0200

> Changes in v2:
 ...
> When syn-cookies are used the SYN?ACK never contains a MPTCP option,
> because the code path that creates a request socket based on a valid
> cookie ACK lacks the needed changes to construct MPTCP request sockets.
> 
> After this series, if SYN carries MP_CAPABLE option, the option is not
> cleared anymore and request socket will be reconstructed using the
> MP_CAPABLE option data that is re-sent with the ACK.
> 
> This means that no additional state gets encoded into the syn cookie or
> the TCP timestamp.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Florian.