netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] tipc: don't send FIN message from connectionless socket

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Message-Id: <20161222.112057.1343936871026993835.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:20:57 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        maloy@...jonn.com, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] tipc: don't send FIN message from
 connectionless socket

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:22:29 -0500

> In commit 6f00089c7372 ("tipc: remove SS_DISCONNECTING state") the
> check for socket type is in the wrong place, causing a closing socket
> to always send out a FIN message even when the socket was never
> connected. This is normally harmless, since the destination node for
> such messages most often is zero, and the message will be dropped, but
> it is still a wrong and confusing behavior.
> 
> We fix this in this commit.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.