netdev - Re: very strange inet_sock corruption with rpc

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Message-ID: <4630A26B.2050406@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:00:27 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
To:	Olaf Kirch <okir@....de>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very strange inet_sock corruption with rpc

Olaf Kirch wrote:
> 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

Olaf

Thank you.  I think this is what we are seeing.

-vlad
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