Re: [GIT] Networking

Eric Dumazet
2011-09-18T19:46:13Z

Le dimanche 18 septembre 2011 à 21:23 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf a
écrit :
> On 2011.09.18 at 11:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 2011/9/17 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> > >
> > > dpward (2):
> > > net: Make flow cache namespace-aware
> > > net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cache
> > >
> > > nhorman (1):
> > > net: don't clear IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE in ether_setup
> > >
> > > rajan.aggarwal85@gmail.com (1):
> > > net/can/af_can.c: Change del_timer to del_timer_sync
> >
> > Guys, if somebody has such a broken email setup that they don't even
> > show their own name, don't take patches from them.
> >
> > If you cannot even set up email sanely, there is zero reason to
> > believe that the patch should be good. And if the patch is trivial and
> > you want to take it despite the source of the patch being crap, please
> > spend the five seconds to fix it up.
> >
> > Proper names are part of the commit message. Don't make it look like
> > crap. I get ugly flashbacks to SVN or CVS when I see stuff like this.
> > Don't do it.
>
> Plus commit 946cedccbd73874 breaks the build:
>
> LD init/built-in.o
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> net/built-in.o:sysctl_net.c:function tcp_v4_conn_request: error: undefined reference to 'cookie_v4_init_sequence'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> commit 946cedccbd7387488d2cee5da92cdfeb28d2e670
> Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 30 03:21:44 2011 +0000
>
> tcp: Change possible SYN flooding messages
>
> "Possible SYN flooding on port xxxx " messages can fill logs on servers.
>
> Change logic to log the message only once per listener, and add two new
> SNMP counters to track :
>
> TCPReqQFullDoCookies : number of times a SYNCOOKIE was replied to client
>
> TCPReqQFullDrop : number of times a SYN request was dropped because
> syncookies were not enabled.
>
> Based on a prior patch from Tom Herbert, and suggestions from David.
>
>

Oh well, trying to remove those ugly #ifdef was not so easy.
I'll cook a patch, thanks for the report