netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] tcp: Don't reinitialise tw->tw_transparent in tcp_time

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Message-ID: <20251118180301.4b118ea7@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:03:01 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Neal Cardwell
 <ncardwell@...gle.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima
 <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] tcp: Don't reinitialise tw->tw_transparent
 in tcp_time_wait().

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:04:40 +0000 Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> tw->tw_transparent is initialised twice in inet_twsk_alloc()
> and tcp_time_wait().
> 
> Let's remove the latter.

Coincidentally looks like inet_twsk_alloc() can be static