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tcp: drop SYN ACK segment for listening sockets
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Authored by tuexen on Sun, Nov 2, 7:48 PM.
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Summary

When a SYN ACK is received for a listening socket, just drop it instead of killing the SYN-cache entry and send a RST. This closes the possibility to kill a TCP connection during its handling in the SYN-cache.

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