netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.y & net-2.6] [IPV6] HASHTABLES: Use appropriate seed for caluculating ehash index.

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Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:26:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org, handat@...nttdata.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20.y & net-2.6] [IPV6] HASHTABLES: Use appropriate
 seed for caluculating ehash index.

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:48:41 +0900 (JST)

> Tetsuo Handa <handat@...nttdata.co.jp> told me that connect(2) with TCPv6
> socket almost always took a few minutes to return when we did not have any
> ports available in the range of net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range.
> 
> The reason was that we used incorrect seed for calculating index of
> hash when we check established sockets in __inet6_check_established().
> 
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>

Thank you for this bug fix, applied.

Here is my signoff for -stable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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