netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: accept RST for rcv_nxt

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:13:39 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>
Cc:     Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: accept RST for rcv_nxt - 1 after receiving
 a FIN

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com> wrote:
>up unneeded resources in a more expedient fashion.
>
>
> Drifting a bit, and it doesn't change the value of dealing with it, but out
> of curiosity, when you say mostly in CLOSE_WAIT, why aren't the server-side
> applications reacting to the read return of zero triggered by the arrival of
> the FIN?

Even if the application reacts, and calls close(fd), kernel will still
try to push the data that was queued into socket write queue prior to
receiving the FIN.

By allowing this RST, we can flush the whole data and react much
faster, avoiding locking memory in the kernel for very long time.