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-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp.c14
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 2cf9a898ce5..d6e48866817 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1573,14 +1573,12 @@ void tcp_close(struct sock *sk, long timeout)
sk_stream_mem_reclaim(sk);
- /* As outlined in draft-ietf-tcpimpl-prob-03.txt, section
- * 3.10, we send a RST here because data was lost. To
- * witness the awful effects of the old behavior of always
- * doing a FIN, run an older 2.1.x kernel or 2.0.x, start
- * a bulk GET in an FTP client, suspend the process, wait
- * for the client to advertise a zero window, then kill -9
- * the FTP client, wheee... Note: timeout is always zero
- * in such a case.
+ /* As outlined in RFC 2525, section 2.17, we send a RST here because
+ * data was lost. To witness the awful effects of the old behavior of
+ * always doing a FIN, run an older 2.1.x kernel or 2.0.x, start a bulk
+ * GET in an FTP client, suspend the process, wait for the client to
+ * advertise a zero window, then kill -9 the FTP client, wheee...
+ * Note: timeout is always zero in such a case.
*/
if (data_was_unread) {
/* Unread data was tossed, zap the connection. */
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index e70a6840cb6..b5fa3c19afe 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2035,7 +2035,7 @@ void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk)
/* We get here when a process closes a file descriptor (either due to
* an explicit close() or as a byproduct of exit()'ing) and there
* was unread data in the receive queue. This behavior is recommended
- * by draft-ietf-tcpimpl-prob-03.txt section 3.10. -DaveM
+ * by RFC 2525, section 2.17. -DaveM
*/
void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *sk, gfp_t priority)
{