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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] remove an outdated reference to T/TCP
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2011 12:00:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206200005.836D529006DD@tardy> (raw)


Remove a particularly out of date bit of comment referring to T/TCP.

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>

---


diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 0cbb440..123e1be 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5824,14 +5824,6 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			 * we just ignore it, that fits the spec precisely
 			 * and avoids incompatibilities. It would be nice in
 			 * future to drop through and process the data.
-			 *
-			 * Now that TTCP is starting to be used we ought to
-			 * queue this data.
-			 * But, this leaves one open to an easy denial of
-			 * service attack, and SYN cookies can't defend
-			 * against this problem. So, we drop the data
-			 * in the interest of security over speed unless
-			 * it's still in use.
 			 */
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			return 0;

             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06 20:00 Rick Jones [this message]
2011-12-06 20:19 ` [PATCH net-next] remove an outdated reference to T/TCP David Miller
2011-12-06 21:39   ` Rick Jones
2011-12-06 21:42     ` David Miller
2011-12-06 23:00       ` Yuchung Cheng
2011-12-07  8:58         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-08  2:00           ` Yuchung Cheng

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