Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:11:33 +0000 you wrote: > When the TCP stack is in SYN flood mode, the server child socket is > created from the SYN cookie received in a TCP packet with the ACK flag > set. > > The child socket is created when the server receives the first TCP > packet with a valid SYN cookie from the client. Usually, this packet > corresponds to the final step of the TCP 3-way handshake, the ACK > packet. But is also possible to receive a valid SYN cookie from the > first TCP data packet sent by the client, and thus create a child socket > from that SYN cookie. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [v8] tcp: fix race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/01770a166165 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html