netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: ABORT if receive queue is not empty while closing socket

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:27:10 -0400
From:	Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: ABORT if receive queue is not empty while closing
 socket

On 06/30/2011 12:19 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:11:06AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
>> On 06/30/2011 09:31 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
>>>> Right.  The lack of ABORT from the receive of data is a bug.  I was trying to point out
>>>> that instead of modified the sender of data to send the ABORT, you modify the receiver
>>>> to send the ABORT when it is being closed while having data queued.
>>>
>>> Is this what you had in mind?
>>
>> Almost.  It could really be a simple true/false condition about recvqueue or inqueue
>> being non-empty.  If that's the case, trigger abort.
> 
> What would be the advantage of that?
> 

Wrt to true/false, it's simpler to test for non-empty then it is to go through and count
the data (but I perfectly ok with either way).  WRT to testing the inqueue, as you stated,
not everything may be in receive queue.

-vlad
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