Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: don't call upper-layer disconnect function if not connected

From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:04:22 -0400

> The socket could have been bind()'d to, in which case it will
> not move to connected state and we still need to invoke
> the disconnect methods such as udp_disconnect() to clear out
> that binding.

Ok.

> You seem to be groveling in random areas of the ipv4 and ipv6 stack,
> what are you working on?

Was looking into a customer-reported memory leak that seemed to be in 
this code path.  It wasn't, but this tweak seemed sane at the time.

-Brian