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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!"
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:08:15 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081218.160815.106790562.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812190028560.12061@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:33:46 +0200 (EET)

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > These debug messages are uninformative and extremely alarming. Rather
> > than reporting a peer as a treacherous attacker, report it more
> > correctly as simply broken. 
> 
> Last time (well, ignoring some report on ancient vendor kernel) I've seen 
> this to trigger it wasn't the fault of the peer but ours (we sent past the 
> advertized window and window ended up being shrunk to zero). I agree that 
> the message as-is is not very good but your change is not very good 
> either.
 ...
> This won't apply to net-next on which you should base anything new (and 
> net related).

Agreed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 22:16 Matt Mackall
2008-12-18 22:33 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-12-18 22:36   ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-18 23:50   ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-19  0:15     ` David Miller
2008-12-19  3:49       ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-19  3:54         ` David Miller
2008-12-19 18:13       ` markus reichelt
2008-12-19  0:08   ` David Miller [this message]
2008-12-18 22:44 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-18 22:49   ` Alan Cox
2008-12-18 23:02     ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-18 23:14       ` Alan Cox
2008-12-19  0:07         ` David Miller
2008-12-18 23:06   ` Matt Mackall
2008-12-19  0:45     ` David Schwartz
2008-12-19  0:55       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-12-19  0:58       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-26 17:46     ` Lennart Sorensen

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