[PATCH][Trivial] tcp: correct code comment stating 3 min timeoutfor FIN_WAIT2, we only do 1 min

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Feb 09 2014 - 17:39:17 EST


As far as I can tell we have used a default of 60 seconds for
FIN_WAIT2 timeout for ages (since 2.x times??).

In any case, the timeout these days is 60 seconds, so the 3 min
comment is wrong (and cost me a few minutes of my life when I was
debugging a FIN_WAIT2 related problem in a userspace application and
checked the kernel source for details).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 4475b3b..9f3a2db 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ adjudge_to_death:
/* This is a (useful) BSD violating of the RFC. There is a
* problem with TCP as specified in that the other end could
* keep a socket open forever with no application left this end.
- * We use a 3 minute timeout (about the same as BSD) then kill
+ * We use a 1 minute timeout (about the same as BSD) then kill
* our end. If they send after that then tough - BUT: long enough
* that we won't make the old 4*rto = almost no time - whoops
* reset mistake.
--
1.7.1


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