netdev - Re: [PATCH] tproxy: copy transparent flag when creating a time wait

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Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hidden@...abit.hu
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tproxy: copy transparent flag when creating a time wait

From: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@...abit.hu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:17:35 +0200

> The transparent socket option setting was not copied to the time wait
> socket when an inet socket was being replaced by a time wait socket. This
> broke the --transparent option of the socket match and may have caused
> that FIN packets belonging to sockets in FIN_WAIT2 or TIME_WAIT state
> were being dropped by the packet filter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@...abit.hu>

I can't believe such a fundamental bug went unspotted for so long :-)

I'll apply this, thanks.
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