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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, muralira@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	hidden@balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:06:32 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024.030632.1448353383063978213.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319192965.2338.25.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:29:25 +0200

> There is a long standing bug in linux tcp stack, about ACK messages sent
> on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets.
> 
> In the IP header of the ACK message, we choose to reflect TOS field of
> incoming message, and this might break some setups.
> 
> Example of things that were broken :
>   - Routing using TOS as a selector
>   - Firewalls
>   - Trafic classification / shaping
> 
> We now remember in timewait structure the inet tos field and use it in
> ACK generation, and route lookup.
> 
> Notes :
>  - We still reflect incoming TOS in RST messages.
>  - We could extend MuraliRaja Muniraju patch to report TOS value in
> netlink messages for TIME_WAIT sockets.
>  - A patch is needed for IPv6
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Eric.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20111010145206.6f7e9ee2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
2011-10-12  1:28 ` [PATCH v3] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS values via netlink Muraliraja Muniraju
2011-10-12  2:48   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-12  4:16     ` MuraliRaja Muniraju
2011-10-12  4:31       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-12 19:00         ` MuraliRaja Muniraju
2011-10-21 10:29         ` [PATCH net-next] ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT Eric Dumazet
2011-10-24  7:06           ` David Miller [this message]
2011-10-12 15:52   ` [PATCH v3] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS values via netlink Stephen Hemminger
2011-10-12 19:00     ` [PATCH v4] " Muraliraja Muniraju
2011-10-12 19:08       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-10-12 19:15       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-12 23:10         ` David Miller

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