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

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jan 11 2013 - 01:49:41 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:18:47 -0800

> [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>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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