Bug 1538499

Summary:	parameter type for ssthresh in manpage of ip-route should be NUMBER
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jianlin Shi <jishi>
Component:	man-pages-overrides	Assignee:	Nikola Forró <nforro>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Houska <jhouska>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.5	CC:	atragler, djez, jaster, nforro, psutter, smoroney, vondruch
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ManPageChange
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	man-pages-overrides-7.6.0-1.el7	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Last Closed:	2018-10-30 11:34:51 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1593628

Description Jianlin Shi 2018-01-25 08:40:09 UTC

Description of problem:
parameter type for ssthresh in manpage of ip-route should be NUMBER

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
iproute-4.11.0-12.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man ip-route
2. search ssthresh

Actual results:
ssthresh REALM

Expected results:
ssthresh NUMBER

Additional info:

Comment 1 Phil Sutter 2018-03-23 20:21:48 UTC

Patch sent upstream: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152172726127212&w=2

Comment 2 Phil Sutter 2018-03-28 11:39:21 UTC

commit 79f49f58aaefe11f677c8e072557b834a19f47f3
Author: Phil Sutter <phil>
Date:   Thu Mar 22 15:00:38 2018 +0100

    man: ip-route.8: ssthresh parameter is NUMBER
    
    Synopsis section was inconsistent with regards to help text and later
    description of ssthresh parameter.
    
    Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil>

Comment 12 Jan Houska 2018-08-16 15:28:53 UTC

Verified


New PASS:

man-pages-overrides-7.6.1-3.el7
The 'man ip-route' command now contains  'ssthresh' option. 


"""
 OPTIONS := FLAGS [ mtu NUMBER ] [ advmss NUMBER ] [ as [ to ] ADDRESS ] rtt TIME ] [ rttvar TIME ] [ reordering NUMBER ] [ window NUMBER ] [ cwnd NUMBER ] [ ssthresh NUMBER ] [
               realms REALM ] [ rto_min TIME ] [ initcwnd NUMBER ] [ initrwnd NUMBER ] [ features FEATURES ] [ quickack BOOL ] [ congctl NAME ] [ pref PREF ] [ expires TIME ]

...

      ssthresh NUMBER (2.3.15+ only)
                     an estimate for the initial slow start threshold.
"""

OLD fail:
man-pages-overrides-7.5.2-1.el7
The 'man ip-route' command doesn't contain  'ssthresh' option.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 11:34:51 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3254