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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: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091029.010009.175904855.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

> [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>

So, this would only be true if we were dealing with a data
packet here.  We're not, this is a SYN+ACK which happens to
be cloned in the write queue.

The hint SKBs pointers can only point to real data packets.

And we're only dealing with data packets once we enter established
state, and when we enter established by definition we have unlinked
and freed up any SYN and SYN+ACK SKBs in the write queue.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29  7:59 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
2009-10-29  8:00       ` David Miller [this message]
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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