netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove extra POLL_OUT added for finished active connect()

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Date:   Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:56:26 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove extra POLL_OUT added for finished
 active connect()

On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 15:59 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> Commit 45f119bf936b ("tcp: remove header prediction") introduced a
> minor bug: the sk_state_change() and sk_wake_async() notifications for
> a completed active connection happen twice: once in this new spot
> inside tcp_finish_connect() and once in the existing code in
> tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process() immediately after it calls
> tcp_finish_connect(). This commit remoes the duplicate POLL_OUT
> notifications.
> 
> Fixes: 45f119bf936b ("tcp: remove header prediction")
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>