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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4 NETLINK]: Unhash sockets correctly
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:52:55 -0800
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:54:17 +0100
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:

> this patch fixes a nasty bug introduced by the pid-hash backport.
> Sockets are only unhashed if they are contained in the first hash
> bucket. This leads to leaking sockets and, over time, to bind
> conflicts which confuse iproute and result in sporadic failure.

Good catch Patrick.  Applied, and I'll push upstream momentarily.