Re: BUG in tcp_timer.c:tcp_retransmit_timer()

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:54:14 +0530 (IST)
Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>       Thats right. But what about the other cases of retransmission 
> failures for which we are having a negative return (-ENOMEM, -EAGAIN, 
> -EHOSTUNREACH etc). Even for these cases its not a good idea to 
> artificially increment tp->retransmits, lest in some extreme case we might 
> timeout a connection without a single packet going on the wire.

That's just like the packet getting dropped at the next hop,
and not the case this branch of code intends to deal with.