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    sctp: handle association restarts when the socket is closed. · bdf6fa52
    Vlad Yasevich authored
    
    
    Currently association restarts do not take into consideration the
    state of the socket.  When a restart happens, the current assocation
    simply transitions into established state.  This creates a condition
    where a remote system, through a the restart procedure, may create a
    local association that is no way reachable by user.  The conditions
    to trigger this are as follows:
      1) Remote does not acknoledge some data causing data to remain
         outstanding.
      2) Local application calls close() on the socket.  Since data
         is still outstanding, the association is placed in SHUTDOWN_PENDING
         state.  However, the socket is closed.
      3) The remote tries to create a new association, triggering a restart
         on the local system.  The association moves from SHUTDOWN_PENDING
         to ESTABLISHED.  At this point, it is no longer reachable by
         any socket on the local system.
    
    This patch addresses the above situation by moving the newly ESTABLISHED
    association into SHUTDOWN-SENT state and bundling a SHUTDOWN after
    the COOKIE-ACK chunk.  This way, the restarted associate immidiately
    enters the shutdown procedure and forces the termination of the
    unreachable association.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarDavid Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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