Bug 427204 - RHEL4, make tcp_input_metrics() get minimum RTO via tcp_rto_min()
Summary: RHEL4, make tcp_input_metrics() get minimum RTO via tcp_rto_min()
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Anton Arapov
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 427205
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-02 09:35 UTC by Anton Arapov
Modified: 2014-06-18 08:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2008-0665
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-07-24 19:23:58 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
proposed patch (557 bytes, patch)
2008-01-02 10:14 UTC, Anton Arapov
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0665 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 2008-07-24 16:41:06 UTC

Description Anton Arapov 2008-01-02 09:35:41 UTC
tcp_input_metrics() refers to the built-time constant TCP_RTO_MIN regardless of
configured minimum RTO with iproute2.

this fix is needed against bz#251240:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251240

patch in upstream:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=488faa2ae32c2f8b1ffda5c7fae5eb7c979acc15

Comment 1 Anton Arapov 2008-01-02 10:14:29 UTC
Created attachment 290643 [details]
proposed patch

backported from upstream

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-01-08 16:56:03 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Vivek Goyal 2008-02-28 23:29:36 UTC
Committed in 68.15.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-24 19:23:58 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0665.html


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