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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: TCP Small Queues and strange attractors
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:33:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141014.153308.2221538197341630790.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413206867.9362.100.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:27:47 -0700

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> index 8d4eac793700..4a7e97811d71 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> @@ -839,26 +839,38 @@ void tcp_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
 ...
>  		local_irq_restore(flags);
> -	} else {
> -		sock_wfree(skb);
> +		return;
>  	}
> +out:
> +	sk_free(sk);
>  }
>  

Why do we need to release the socket here?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-13 13:27 [PATCH net] tcp: TCP Small Queues and strange attractors Eric Dumazet
2014-10-14 19:33 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-10-14 21:10   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-14 21:16     ` David Miller

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