This stale info came from the original idea, which proved to be unnecessarily complex, sacked_out > 0 is easy to do and that when it's going to be needed anyway (it _can_ be valid also when sacked_out == 0 but there's not going to be a guarantee about it for now).
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/tcp.h | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h index 1f12fa0..f8cf090 100644 --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ struct tcp_sock { struct tcp_sack_block_wire recv_sack_cache[4]; - u32 highest_sack; /* Start seq of globally highest revd SACK (valid only in slowpath) */ + u32 highest_sack; /* Start seq of globally highest revd SACK + * (validity guaranteed only if sacked_out > 0) */ /* from STCP, retrans queue hinting */ struct sk_buff* lost_skb_hint; -- 1.5.0.6