netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: ensure non-empty connection request queue

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Message-ID: <1462383266.5535.350.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 May 2016 10:34:26 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@....com>
Cc:	Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Kui Zhang <kuizhang@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: ensure non-empty connection request queue

On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 10:24 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:

> Dropping the connection attempt makes sense, but is entering/claiming 
> synflood really indicated in the case of a zero-length accept queue?

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