From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:51:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sctp: send abort chunk when max_retrans exceeded Message-Id: <20121120.155103.478583415099211037.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <1353434344-17864-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1353442470-20660-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <50ABE754.7060306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50ABE754.7060306@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: vyasevich@gmail.com Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org From: Vlad Yasevich Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:25:56 -0500 > On 11/20/2012 03:14 PM, Neil Horman wrote: >> In the event that an association exceeds its max_retrans attempts, we >> should >> send an ABORT chunk indicating that we are closing the assocation as a >> result. >> Because of the nature of the error, its unlikely to be received, but >> its a nice >> clean way to close the association if it does make it through, and it >> will give >> anyone watching via tcpdump a clue as to what happened. >> >> Change notes: >> v2) >> * Removed erroneous changes from sctp_make_violation_parmlen >> >> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman >> CC: Vlad Yasevich > > Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich Applied, thanks.