Re: 3.8-rc2/rc3 write() blocked on CLOSE_WAIT TCP socket

[Eric Wong]

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, thats definitely the problem, sorry for that.
> 
> 
> [PATCH] tcp: accept RST without ACK flag
> 
> commit c3ae62af8e755 (tcp: should drop incoming frames without ACK flag
> set) added a regression on the handling of RST messages.
> 
> RST should be allowed to come even without ACK bit set. We validate
> the RST by checking the exact sequence, as requested by RFC 793 and 
> 5961 3.2, in tcp_validate_incoming()
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

All good here, thanks for the quick turnaround!

Tested-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>

(I originally thought the FIFOs were part of the problem, so I left
 that in my test case)
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