On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 5:13 AM Jason Xing <kerneljasonx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Jason Xing <kernelx...@tencent.com> > > Add a new standalone file for the easy future extension to support > both active reset and passive reset in the TCP/DCCP/MPTCP protocols. > > This patch only does the preparations for reset reason mechanism, > nothing else changes. > > The reset reasons are divided into three parts: > 1) reuse drop reasons for passive reset in TCP > 2) our own independent reasons which aren't relying on other reasons at all > 3) reuse MP_TCPRST option for MPTCP > > The benefits of a standalone reset reason are listed here: > 1) it can cover more than one case, such as reset reasons in MPTCP, > active reset reasons. > 2) people can easily/fastly understand and maintain this mechanism. > 3) we get unified format of output with prefix stripped. > 4) more new reset reasons are on the way > ... > > I will implement the basic codes of active/passive reset reason in > those three protocols, which are not complete for this moment. For > passive reset part in TCP, I only introduce the NO_SOCKET common case > which could be set as an example. > > After this series applied, it will have the ability to open a new > gate to let other people contribute more reasons into it :) > > Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelx...@tencent.com> > Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matt...@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
