* Daniel Fuchs:

> Hi Florian,
>
> On 04/10/2019 16:25, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Doesn't it introduce a race condition where the socket has a port and
>> queue packets, but the kernel will not perform source address checking
>> because it is unconnected?
>
> The long standing behavior of DatagramSocket::connect is to throw out
> any packet in the queue after connecting, so this changes nothing.
>
> See at line 897:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8231260/webrev.00/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/nio/ch/DatagramChannelImpl.java.frames.html

Yes, sorry, it's a bit non-obvious though.  Maybe add a comment that
arriving packets are either flushed by the kernel or by connect()
further down?

Thanks,
Florian

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