netdev - Re: [PATCH -next 2/3] tcp: send_reset: test for non-NULL sk first

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:46:32 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 2/3] tcp: send_reset: test for non-NULL sk first

On 21.12.2015 21:29, Florian Westphal wrote:
> tcp_md5_do_lookup requires a full socket, so once we extend
> _send_reset() to also accept timewait socket we would have to change
> 
> if (!sk && hash_location)
> 
> to something like
> 
> if ((!sk || !sk_fullsock(sk)) && hash_location) {
>   ...
> } else {
>   (sk && sk_fullsock(sk)) tcp_md5_do_lookup()
> }
> 
> Switch the two branches: check if we have a socket first, then
> fall back to a listener lookup if we saw a md5 option (hash_location).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>


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