netdev - RE: [PATCH] tcp: RST: binding oif to iif for tcp v4

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Date:	Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:42:56 -0500
From:	Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@...csson.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xiaoclu@...il.com" <xiaoclu@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tcp: RST: binding oif to iif for tcp v4

Eric:

Yes, you are right.  It helps if we do as your suggested.

Do you want to send out a patch to address this? 

Thanks!

Shawn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@...il.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 10:30 AM
> To: Shawn Lu
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; netdev@...r.kernel.org; xiaoclu@...il.com
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] tcp: RST: binding oif to iif for tcp v4
> 
> Le samedi 04 février 2012 à 13:15 -0500, Shawn Lu a écrit :
> 
> > It won't work.  For RST, socket is gone. 
> 
> If this was true, we would not have :
> 
> tcp_v4_send_reset(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> 
> but :
> 
> tcp_v4_send_reset(struct sk_buff *skb)
> 
> 
> Think about it.
> 
> You write a lot, but you dont really understand what I wrote 
> in my previous mails, do you ?
> 
> 
> 
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