Re: [PATCH v4] tcp: fix race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies

On 11/13/20 8:09 PM, Ricardo Dias wrote: > When the TCP stack is in SYN flood mode, the server child socket is > created from the SYN cookie received in a TCP packet with the ACK flag > set. > > The child socket is created when the server receives the first TCP > packet with a valid SYN cookie

[PATCH v4] tcp: fix race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies

When the TCP stack is in SYN flood mode, the server child socket is created from the SYN cookie received in a TCP packet with the ACK flag set. The child socket is created when the server receives the first TCP packet with a valid SYN cookie from the client. Usually, this packet corresponds to