netdev - Re: inet_diag_dump_icsk() change seems bogus...

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Date:	Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:59:06 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: inet_diag_dump_icsk() change seems bogus...

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 10:43 -0500, Neal Cardwell wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> That was true in 3.12 and earlier, but AFAICT since Eric's 05dbc7b
>> ("tcp/dccp: remove twchain") in 3.13-rc1, there is no head->twchain,
>> and instead all the connections (both tcp_sock and timewait flavor)
>> are on the head->chain, so that we do need to check for timewait
>> sockets. :-)
>
>
> Note that Neal fix needs a different form for stable trees.
>
> Thats maybe David concern ;)

Ah, makes sense. :-) I have a tested version of the patch for pre-3.13
kernels if anyone is interested in that.

neal
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