Commit b10bd54c authored Feb 09, 2014 by Jesper Juhl Committed by David S. Miller Feb 09, 2014

tcp: correct code comment stating 3 min timeout for FIN_WAIT2, we only do 1 min



As far as I can tell we have used a default of 60 seconds for
FIN_WAIT2 timeout for ages (since 2.x times??).

In any case, the timeout these days is 60 seconds, so the 3 min
comment is wrong (and cost me a few minutes of my life when I was
debugging a FIN_WAIT2 related problem in a userspace application and
checked the kernel source for details).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 0fbb8297

net/ipv4/tcp.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ adjudge_to_death:
		/* This is a (useful) BSD violating of the RFC. There is a
		* problem with TCP as specified in that the other end could
		* keep a socket open forever with no application left this end.
		* We use a 3 minute timeout (about the same as BSD) then kill
		* We use a 1 minute timeout (about the same as BSD) then kill
		* our end. If they send after that then tough - BUT: long enough
		* that we won't make the old 4*rto = almost no time - whoops
		* reset mistake.

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