Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: fix synchronization on connection close

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:35:42 +1100

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:41:42PM +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> commit 9d3a0de makes slaves expire as they would do on the master
> with much shorter timeouts. But it introduces another problem:
> When we close a connection, on master server the connection became
> CLOSE_WAIT/TIME_WAIT, it was synced to slaves, but if master is
> finished within it's timeouts (CLOSE), it will not be synced to
> slaves. Then slaves will be kept on CLOSE_WAIT/TIME_WAIT until
> timeout reaches. Thus we should also sync with CLOSE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Wensong Zhang <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Julian Anastasov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>

This seems reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>

> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> index b95699f..847ffca 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> @@ -1366,6 +1366,7 @@ ip_vs_in(unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	       == sysctl_ip_vs_sync_threshold[0])) ||
>  	     ((cp->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) && (cp->old_state != cp->state) &&
>  	      ((cp->state == IP_VS_TCP_S_FIN_WAIT) ||
> +	       (cp->state == IP_VS_TCP_S_CLOSE) ||
>  	       (cp->state == IP_VS_TCP_S_CLOSE_WAIT) ||
>  	       (cp->state == IP_VS_TCP_S_TIME_WAIT)))))
>  		ip_vs_sync_conn(cp);
> -- 
> 1.6.5.2
> 
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