netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet_diag: fix inet_diag_dump_icsk() to use correct state for timewait sockets

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:36:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ncardwell@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet_diag: fix inet_diag_dump_icsk() to use
 correct state for timewait sockets

From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:34:45 -0500

> Fix inet_diag_dump_icsk() to reflect the fact that both TCP_TIME_WAIT
> and TCP_FIN_WAIT2 connections are represented by inet_timewait_sock
> (not just TIME_WAIT), and for such sockets the tw_substate field holds
> the real state, which can be either TCP_TIME_WAIT or TCP_FIN_WAIT2.
> 
> This brings the inet_diag state-matching code in line with the field
> it uses to populate idiag_state. This is also analogous to the info
> exported in /proc/net/tcp, where get_tcp4_sock() exports sk->sk_state
> and get_timewait4_sock() exports tw->tw_substate.
> 
> Before fixing this, (a) neither "ss -nemoi" nor "ss -nemoi state
> fin-wait-2" would return a socket in TCP_FIN_WAIT2; and (b) "ss -nemoi
> state time-wait" would also return sockets in state TCP_FIN_WAIT2.
> 
> This is an old bug that predates 05dbc7b ("tcp/dccp: remove twchain").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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