Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: buggy GFP_KERNEL allocators | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:10:13 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I _know_ this is broken, and I want to fix it in 2.3.x but I cannot > safely fix that issue in 2.2.x at all. The issue is that the way > things are architected in 2.2.x there is no simple way to retry a FIN > later after allocation failure nor forego the FIN altogether. All > available failure schemes in that piece of code would result in a > dead unkillable socket.
Thats not quite true. You could for example alloc a FIN packet at socket open time in 2.2.x
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