[ovs-dev] [patch v1] conntrack-tcp: Handle tcp session reuse.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Mar 9 19:22:20 UTC 2018


On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:25:50PM -0800, Darrell Ball wrote:
> Fix tcp sequence tracking for session reuse cases.  This can happen,
> for example by doing VM migration, where sequence tracking needs to
> be more permissive.  The solution is to be more permissive for
> session restart and session start only.  We don't differentiate
> session start here where we could be more strict, although we could,
> because the gain in protection is almost zero and the code modularity
> would be lessened and code complexity increased.
> This issue originates in release 2.7.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrell Ball <dlu998 at gmail.com>

Darrell, who should review this?  Justin, are you the right person?


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