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Commit f711a6ae authored by Sowmini Varadhan's avatar Sowmini Varadhan Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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