Re: Can only connect to RMS gateway once

[David Ranch <linux-hams@trinnet.net>]

+ David Miller for comments


I see a change on June 25, 2015, and a few others on that file that seem 
like they could be the issue:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/net/ax25/af_ax25.c


--David


On 06/04/2016 01:43 PM, Basil Gunn wrote:
> This isn't a final solution but the problem is in:
>
>   sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DESTROY);
>
> in routine ax25_release() in file net/ax25/af_ax25.c which does what it
> is supposed to do in kernel 4.1.21 but NOT in kernels 4.2.8 & above. It
> should destroy & free the socket when disconnecting.
>
> For my 4.2.8 kernel If I add this after the sock_set_flag() call in
> ax25_release() then the connection is released after disconnect & I can
> reconnect again.
>
>      release_sock(sk);
>      ax25_disconnect(ax25, 0);
>      lock_sock(sk);
>      ax25_destroy_socket(ax25);
>
> >From the af_ax25 code in the 4.1.21 kernel, it expects sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DESTROY); to
>   ax25_destroy_socket
>   ax25_free_sock
>
>
>> /Basil n7nix
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