Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NULL pointer dereference in selinux_ip_postroute_compat | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:27:52 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 09:30 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> In the case of a TCP syn-recv and timewait ACK things are a little less clear. > Eric (Dumazet), it looks like we have a socket in tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack() and > tcp_v4_timewait_ack(), any reason why we can't propagate the socket down to > ip_send_unicast_reply()? >
timewait 'sockets' are not full blown sockets.
We need a socket (well, a good part of it) to build the IP frame and send it.
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