From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: daniel.baluta@gmail.com (Daniel Baluta)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:49:13 +0200
Subject: Casting sock to inet_timewait_sock
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Hello,

When casting sock to inet_timewait_sock ([1]) it is assumed
that sock points to a structure of type inet_timewait_sock.

Is there a way to check if a sock struct wraps around
a inet_timewait_sock struct?

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h#L189