net/rds: RDS-TCP: Always create a new rds_sock for an incoming connection.
When running RDS over TCP, the active (client) side connects to the listening ("passive") side at the RDS_TCP_PORT. After the connection is established, if the client side reboots (potentially without even sending a FIN) the server still has a TCP socket in the esablished state. If the server-side now gets a new SYN comes from the client with a different client port, TCP will create a new socket-pair, but the RDS layer will incorrectly pull up the old rds_connection (which is still associated with the stale t_sock and RDS socket state). This patch corrects this behavior by having rds_tcp_accept_one() always create a new connection for an incoming TCP SYN. The rds and tcp state associated with the old socket-pair is cleaned up via the rds_tcp_state_change() callback which would typically be invoked in most cases when the client-TCP sends a FIN on TCP restart, triggering a transition to CLOSE_WAIT state. In the rarer event of client death without a FIN, TCP_KEEPALIVE probes on the socket will detect the stale socket, and the TCP transition to CLOSE state will trigger the RDS state cleanup. Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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