Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix zombie netlink socket in user space

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Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix zombie netlink socket in user space

To:	pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx (Pablo Neira)
Subject:	Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix zombie netlink socket in user space
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:02:52 +1000
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Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If you try to bind/connect to a non existant netlink socket, client 
> socket gets succesfully inserted as head in the socket list. The problem 
> is that the head can't be delete, so that socket stays in the list 
> forever (see sk_del_node_init).

Huh? Where does it say that the head can't be deleted?
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