change "tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection" broke networking

From: Lutz Vieweg
Date: Wed Mar 15 2017 - 15:50:44 EST


Dear Linux Developers,

change set "tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection"
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=95a22caee396cef0bb2ca8fafdd82966a49367bb
broke networking for several users starting from linux-4.10 -
connects (even to localhost) would just time out in many cases.

See
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194723
for a detailed description and the "git bisect" log.

Thanks for considering any fix in advance, best regards,

Lutz Vieweg