Re: 2.1.97: Socket hangs in SYN_SENT [with correct patch]

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
22 Apr 1998 12:25:07 +0200


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> thomas@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG (Thomas Quinot) writes:
>
> > When trying to fetch news from a particular remote host
> > (news.povray.org, if this matters), the NNTP sockets
> > often (but not always) get stuck in SYN_SENT state during
> > inet_stream_connect :
>
> Could you test if this patch fixes it?
[... wrong patch deleted ... ]

Of course this patch was wrong, here is a corrected patch:

--- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c-o Wed Apr 22 13:02:54 1998
+++ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c Wed Apr 22 13:25:16 1998
@@ -864,6 +864,7 @@

tp->rto = dst->rtt;
tcp_init_xmit_timers(sk);
+ tcp_reset_xmit_timer(sk, TIME_RETRANS, tp->rto);
tp->retransmits = 0;
tp->fackets_out = 0;
tp->retrans_out = 0;

-Andi

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