Comment 4 for bug 152741

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Adding git commit id and description just for the kernel team to reference as well. Thanks.

commit 9b42c336d06411e6463949d2dac63949f66ff70b
Author: Eric Dumazet <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Oct 1 13:58:36 2007 -0700

    [TCP]: secure_tcp_sequence_number() should not use a too fast clock

    TCP V4 sequence numbers are 32bits, and RFC 793 assumed a 250 KHz clock.
    In order to follow network speed increase, we can use a faster clock, but
    we should limit this clock so that the delay between two rollovers is
    greater than MSL (TCP Maximum Segment Lifetime : 2 minutes)

    Choosing a 64 nsec clock should be OK, since the rollovers occur every
    274 seconds.

    Problem spotted by Denys Fedoryshchenko

    [ This bug was introduced by f85958151900f9d30fa5ff941b0ce71eaa45a7de ]

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <email address hidden>