netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent

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Message-ID: <901b48cc-a9cc-43a3-bb8d-9ef7f3bd8baa@cispa.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 20:44:53 +0100
From: Christian Rossow <rossow@...pa.de>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
CC: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Neal Cardwell
	<ncardwell@...gle.com>, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Yepeng Pan
	<yepeng.pan@...pa.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent

> Perhaps Yepeng Pan and Christian Rossow have plans to bring this issue to IETF.
We already brought this up to the IETF TCP WG chairs a few weeks ago. 
It's still unclear if the TCP WG wants to work on an Internet Draft that 
mitigates "ghost ACKs". We'll follow up with them.

Cheers,
Christian

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