netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP: Always create a new rds

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Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 14:47:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chien.yen@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	ajaykumar.hotchandani@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP: Always create a new rds_sock for
 an incoming connection.

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Sat,  2 May 2015 07:55:08 -0400

> When running RDS over TCP, the active (client) side connects to the
> listening ("passive") side at the RDS_TCP_PORT.  After the connection
> is established, if the client side reboots (potentially without even
> sending a FIN) the server still has a TCP socket in the Established
> state.  If the server-side now gets a new SYN comes from the client
> with a different client port, TCP will create a new socket-pair, but
> the RDS layer will incorrectly pull up the old rds_connection (which
> is still associated with the stale t_sock and RDS socket state).
> 
> This patch corrects this behavior by having rds_tcp_accept_one()
> always create a new connection for an incoming TCP SYN.
> The rds and tcp state associated with the old socket-pair is cleaned
> up in rds_tcp_set_callbacks() (i.e., rds_conn_drop on the old
> connection)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>

I think adding 64K of data to this module just to solve this rare
issue is excessive.

Furthermore I don't see any locking protecting the hash table nor
the RDS socket linkage into that table.
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