MEDIUM: connection: it's not the data layer's role to validate the connection
Till now we used to perform the L4_CONN check in the data layer
(eg: stream interface) but that does not make sense, because some transport
layers will imply that the connection is opened (eg: SSL), and also because
the complexity to check for this is higher in the data layer than in the
transport layer. This is so much true that some read0 cases did not validate
the connection.
So as of now, the transport layer is responsible for clearing L4_CONN when
it detects an activity, and the data layer may safely rely on this flag. This
only impacts a minor change in raw_sock and stream_interface for now.
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