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Commit 5cb2cb3c authored by Jason Xing's avatar Jason Xing Committed by Paolo Abeni
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net: introduce rstreason to detect why the RST is sent


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: default avatarJason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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