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Subject: [PATCH net-next] remove an outdated reference to T/TCP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Remove a particularly out of date bit of comment referring to T/TCP.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;
next 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2011-12-06 20:19 ` [PATCH net-next] remove an outdated reference to T/TCP David Miller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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