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From: William Allen Simpson
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 1:30 pm

I'd have thought that there would be greater interest about patching
crashing bugs, signed versus unsigned (underflow) bugs, TCP DoS bugs,
TCP data corruption, and TCP performance problems....

Combination of patches reported in October, November, December, January,
and February, for 2.6.32 and now 2.6.33.

This code has had previous review and several months of limited testing.

Some portions were removed during the various TCPCT part 1 patch splits,
then were cut off by the sudden unexpected end of that merge window.
[03 Dec 2009]  I've restarted the sub-numbering (again).

Of particular interest are the TCPCT header extensions that already
appear in the next phase of testing with other platforms.  These patches
allow correct reception without data corruption.

The remainder of the original TCPCT part 2 will be merged with part 3.

[Updated to 2010 Feb 24 2.6.33 release.]
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[PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:34 pm)
[PATCH v3 1/7] net: tcp_header_len_th and tcp_option_len_th, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:35 pm)
[PATCH v3 2/7] net: remove old tcp_optlen function, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33, Ben Hutchings, (Thu Feb 25, 1:43 pm)
[PATCH v5 3/7] tcp: harmonize tcp_vx_rcv header length ass ..., William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:44 pm)
[PATCH v5 4/7] tcp: input header length, prediction, and t ..., William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] net: remove old tcp_optlen function, Ben Hutchings, (Thu Feb 25, 1:55 pm)
[PATCH v3 5/7] TCPCT part 2e: accept SYNACK data, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 1:56 pm)
[PATCH v5 6/7] TCPCT part 2f: cleanup tcp_parse_options, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 2:01 pm)
[PATCH v7 7/7] TCPCT part 2g: parse cookie pair and 64-bit ..., William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 2:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33, William Allen Simpson, (Thu Feb 25, 2:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/7] tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.33, David Miller, (Thu Feb 25, 10:33 pm)