tcp_v6_send_response() send orphaned 'control packets'.
These are RST packets and also ACK packets sent from TIME_WAIT.
Some eBPF programs would prefer to have a meaningful skb->sk
pointer as much as possible.
This means that TCP can now attach TIME_WAIT sockets to outgoing
skbs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241010174817.1543642-5-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
}
if (sk) {
+ /* unconstify the socket only to attach it to buff with care. */
+ skb_set_owner_edemux(buff, (struct sock *)sk);
+
if (sk->sk_state == TCP_TIME_WAIT)
mark = inet_twsk(sk)->tw_mark;
else