buggy GFP_KERNEL allocators

[Alan Cox]

> I _know_ this is broken, and I want to fix it in 2.3.x but I cannot
> safely fix that issue in 2.2.x at all.  The issue is that the way
> things are architected in 2.2.x there is no simple way to retry a FIN
> later after allocation failure nor forego the FIN altogether.  All
> available failure schemes in that piece of code would result in a
> dead unkillable socket.

Thats not quite true. You could for example alloc a FIN packet at socket
open time in 2.2.x 


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