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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kolo@albatani.cz,
	bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:02:32 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028.230232.20877138.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE92F4D.6070101@gmail.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:59:41 +0100

> David, what do you think of following patch ?
> 
> I wonder if we should reorganize code to add sanity checks in tcp_unlink_write_queue()
> that the skb we delete from queue is not still referenced.
> 
> [PATCH] tcp: clear retrans hints in tcp_send_synack()
> 
> There is a small possibility the skb we unlink from write queue 
> is still referenced by retrans hints.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Yes, the first thing I thought of when I saw this crash was the hints.

I'll think this over.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 15:41 Fw: [Bug 14470] New: freez in TCP stack Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-28 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-28 22:27   ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-10-29  5:35   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29  5:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29  6:02       ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-29  8:00       ` David Miller
2009-11-26 21:54         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-11-26 23:37           ` David Miller
2009-11-27  6:17             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-02 23:10           ` David Miller
2009-12-03  6:24           ` David Miller
2010-03-18 21:04             ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-19 15:52               ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 12:58     ` Fw: " Ilpo Järvinen
2009-10-29 14:08       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-30 20:18       ` Herbert Xu

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