Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] tcp: pass want_cookie down to req_init function

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:58:43 +0200

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:15 AM Florian Westphal <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > In MPTCP case, we want to know if we should store a new token id or if we
> > should try best-effort only (cookie case).
> >
> > This allows the MPTCP core to detect when it should elide the storage
> > of the generated MPTCP token.
> >
> 
> It seems you add later another patch, introducing cookie_tcp_reqsk_alloc()
> 
> We could rename req->cookie_ts  bit to req->syncookie  in order to not
> change function signatures.

Ok, I will update patch #1 to do a rename instead of removing cookie_ts
bit.  I will keep the change in output path to check synack_type instead
of cookie_ts.