Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net: tcp: add skb drop reasons to tcp state change

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Jun 17 2022 - 23:05:13 EST


On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:05:06 +0800 menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Menglong Dong <imagedong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In this series patches, skb drop reasons are add to code path of TCP
> state change, which we have not done before. It is hard to pass these
> reasons from the function to its caller, where skb is dropped. In order
> to do this, we have to make some functions return skb drop reasons, or
> pass the pointer of 'reason' to these function as an new function
> argument.

Does not cleanly apply to net-next, reportedly.