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Bug 501754

Summary: Bug with TCP tcp_ack() [RHEL 4]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.7CC: dhoward, mgahagan, pm-eus, sghosh, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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The tcp_ack() function cleared the probes_out variable even if there were outstanding packets. When low TCP keepalive intervals were used, this bug may have caused problems, such as connections terminating, when using remote tools such as rsh and rlogin.
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Last Closed: 2009-06-30 08:06:31 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 494428    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-05-20 15:39:05 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #494428 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-05-21 16:42:52 UTC
Committed in 89.0.1.EL

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-06-30 08:06:31 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-2009-1132.html

Comment 9 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 23:32:14 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The tcp_ack() function cleared the probes_out variable even if there were outstanding packets. When low TCP keepalive intervals were used, this bug may have caused problems, such as connections terminating, when using remote tools such as rsh and rlogin.