From: Alex Gartrell <agartr...@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:13:09 -0700

> If we early-demux bind a TCP_TIMEWAIT socket to an skb and then orphan it
> (as we need to do in the ipvs forwarding case), sock_wfree and sock_rfree
> are going to reach into the inet_timewait_sock and mess with fields that
> don't exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <agartr...@fb.com>

If we're forwarding, we should not find a local socket, period.

We should only match sockets for locally destined packets.

So I'd say that the state in which you say this can occur is illegal.
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