Re: Strange TCP with 2.5.60

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Could you pelase retest with this patch, and tell us how many of these
> > problems go away?
> > 
> > diff -puN net/ipv4/fib_hash.c~a net/ipv4/fib_hash.c
> > --- 25/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c~a	2003-02-12 10:23:55.000000000 -0800
> > +++ 25-akpm/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c	2003-02-12 10:24:00.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static __inline__ struct fib_node *fib_g
> >  
> >  			if (!iter->zone)
> >  				goto out;
> > -			if (iter->zone->fz_next)
> > +			if (iter->zone->fz_next);
> >  				break;
> >  		}
> >  		
> > 
> > _
> 
> is that patch reversed, I hope? The if doesn't do a great deal.

It is deliberate.  It directly reverts a bugfix which was recently merged.

Apparently the problem is that this combined with recent seq_file conversions
has resulted in changed format of some /proc/net/foo files, which is
confusing some network admin apps.

It is being worked on.