From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:12:54 -0700
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
>
> When a TCP/DCCP listener is closed, its pending SYN_RECV request sockets
> become stale, meaning 3WHS can not complete.
>
> But current behavior is wrong :
> incoming packets finding such stale sockets are dropped.
>
> We need instead to cleanup the request socket and perform another
> lookup :
> - Incoming ACK will give a RST answer,
> - SYN rtx might find another listener if available.
> - We expedite cleanup of request sockets and old listener socket.
>
> Fixes: 079096f103fa ("tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Applied, thanks Eric.
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