Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2] tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:39:08 +0200
> Do you know in what exact circumstance the bug triggers ? > > It's hard to believe thousand of machines on the Internet never hit > it :( > > Maybe another problem in congestion control ?
This is something to investigate, but the conditions under which tcp_fastretrans_alert() (the main invoker of tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()) does it's thing are complicated enough that I'm going to add this fix for the time being and push it out to stable too.
Thanks everyone.
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