ask alfred? :)
-a On 27 April 2015 at 02:22, hiren panchasara <[email protected]> wrote: > Wanted to see if someone with understanding of accept_filter can > comment. > > cheers, > Hiren > On 04/09/15 at 09:08P, hiren panchasara wrote: >> If a connections comes on a socket with accf_data(9) (for example) but >> never sends any data, it'll occupy resources via staying forever in >> listen queue of partial unaccepted connections (socket->so_incomp) which >> can be seen as incqlen in 'netstat -Lan'. >> Kernel will never pass this connection down to the application as >> the filter criteria hasn't been met (no data) and application >> would never know about this connection. >> >> What I am not sure is what would be the state of the connection >> and state of the socket when in this situation. We do come here after >> finishing 3WHS but before handing this over to the application i.e. >> before the accept(). >> >> From uipc_socket.c: >> >> * From the passive side, a socket is created with two queues of sockets: >> * so_incomp for connections in progress and so_comp for connections already >> * made and awaiting user acceptance. As a protocol is preparing incoming >> * connections, it creates a socket structure queued on so_incomp by calling >> * sonewconn(). When the connection is established, soisconnected() is >> * called, and transfers the socket structure to so_comp, making it available >> * to accept(). >> >> So, it looks like the connection would be in ESTABLISHED state but >> socket would be stuck in the so_incomp queue. Other than this special >> condition of accpet_filter, can such a situation occur? >> >> Any insight/help into understanding this scenario and a way to cleanup >> these connections would be great. >> >> (I know tcp doesn't care/worry about idle sitting connections; we have >> keepalives to check the health of the connection but that's it, afaik) >> >> Cheers, >> Hiren _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
