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

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Message-ID: <20120906123407.GB1217@1984>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:34:07 +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 Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:52:22PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 19:10 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure, its not a stable candidate.

Done, applied thanks a lot Eric!
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