Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: tcp: move to timewait when receiving data post active-close

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:32:34 +0100

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 16:54 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> 
> > Still, the RST packet can be dropped along the way. So the teardown of
> > the socket on the other side might not happen.
> 
> This is why it is better to send RST for every incoming in-excess packet

I'm convinced and marked patch as rejected in patchwork.

Thanks Eric!