From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix premature termination of FIN_WAIT2 time-wait sockets Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090829.000058.92245218.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200908150339.12730.opurdila@ixiacom.com> <200908242347.05367.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: opurdila@ixiacom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33575 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083AbZH2HAo (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:00:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200908242347.05367.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Octavian Purdila Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:47:05 +0300 > On Saturday 15 August 2009 03:39:12 Octavian Purdila wrote: > >> NOTE: this issue has been found, fixed and tested on an ancient 2.6.7 >> kernel. This patch is a blind port of that fix, since unfortunately there >> is no easy way for me to reproduce the original issue with a newer kernel. >> But the issue still seems to be there. > > Update: I was able to reproduce the issue on a 2.6.30 debian kernel with the > attached test. It took me about 10 runs of 2-5 mins each to reproduce it > (multiple runs to keep the capture file reasonable in terms of size). Thanks a lot for fixing this bug. I've applied your patch to net-next-2.6