netdev - Re: very strange inet_sock corruption with rpc

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Message-Id: <200704260849.41485.okir@lst.de>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:49:40 +0200
From:	Olaf Kirch <okir@....de>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very strange inet_sock corruption with rpc

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 23:03, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> It looks like someone is stepping all over the inet_sock.
> We'll continue looking, but if anyone has any ideas of what might
> be going on, I'd appreciate it.

This could be a socket in TIME_WAIT. A socket entering
TIME_WAIT will be replaced by an inet_timewait_sock, which is
a kind of truncated inet_sock.

Olaf
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