Re: [PATCH] ping: ICMP error replies while errno < 0 is a hard error

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>]

Hi,

Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> There are some odd conditions in which a device will return an error for
> sendto, while at the same time an ICMP error response is generated. In
> this case, with the current code, the packet is retransmitted in a
> flood, which is not what anybody wants. In fact, when these two
> conditions occur, we want to treat the packet as a "hard local error"
> and do the ordinary pause as before. The reasoning is that if we did
> receive an ICMP error message, then the packet was transmitted, and so
> it should be accounted for. But, since we also received an errno, this
> should be reported to the user, as something is wonky with their network
> interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Applied. Thank you.

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Hideaki Yoshifuji <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Technical Division, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION