Currently connections only in the TCP_ESTABLISHED state can be dumped and restored. This series allows to restore connections in the FIN_WAIT_1, FIN_WAIT_2, LAST_ACK, CLOSE_WAIT, CLOSING or TIME_WAIT states.
v2: We decide to not use control message for repairing fin packets in queues. Because it looks quite tricky. Alexey suggested to restore each state separately and in this case setsockopt looks more logical. Andrey Vagin (2): tcp: allow to enable repair mode for sockets in closing states tcp: add ability to restore closing states (v2) include/uapi/linux/tcp.h | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[email protected]> Cc: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
