On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 09:30 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > In the case of a TCP syn-recv and timewait ACK things are a little less > clear. > Eric (Dumazet), it looks like we have a socket in tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack() and > tcp_v4_timewait_ack(), any reason why we can't propagate the socket down to > ip_send_unicast_reply()? >
timewait 'sockets' are not full blown sockets. We need a socket (well, a good part of it) to build the IP frame and send it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/