netdev - a problem tcp_v4

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Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:57:15 +0300
From:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, paul.moore@...com
Subject: a problem tcp_v4_err()

Hello!

I looked at tcp_v4_err() and found something strange. Quite non-trivial operations
are performed on unlocked sockets. It looks like at least this BUG_ON():

                skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
                BUG_ON(!skb);

can be easily triggered.

Do I miss something?

Alexey
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