netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: take care of timewait sockets

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Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:10:16 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: take care of timewait sockets

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Sami Farin reported crashes in xt_LOG because it assumes skb->sk is a
> full blown socket.
> 
> But with TCP early demux, we can have skb->sk pointing to a timewait
> socket.

TCP early demux is there since 3.6-rc.

I'll add that to the changelog if you don't mind, to help tracking
things for -stable.
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