netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix premature termination of FIN

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Message-Id: <20090829.000058.92245218.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	opurdila@...acom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix premature termination of FIN_WAIT2 time-wait
 sockets

From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:47:05 +0300

> On Saturday 15 August 2009 03:39:12 Octavian Purdila wrote:
> 
>> NOTE: this issue has been found, fixed and tested on an ancient 2.6.7
>> kernel. This patch is a blind port of that fix, since unfortunately there
>> is no easy way for me to reproduce the original issue with a newer kernel.
>> But the issue still seems to be there.
> 
> Update: I was able to reproduce the issue on a 2.6.30 debian kernel with the 
> attached test. It took me about 10 runs of 2-5 mins each to reproduce it 
> (multiple runs to keep the capture file reasonable in terms of size).

Thanks a lot for fixing this bug.

I've applied your patch to net-next-2.6
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