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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-05-26 23:20:18 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-27 11:30:53 +0400
commit8a74ad60a546b13bd1096b2a61a7a5c6fd9ae17c (patch)
tree3110e7e59883597b5d0f617e8507e15b8f965f3f /net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
parenta56635a56f2afb3d22d9ce07e8f8d69537416b2d (diff)
downloadlinux-8a74ad60a546b13bd1096b2a61a7a5c6fd9ae17c.tar.xz
net: fix lock_sock_bh/unlock_sock_bh
This new sock lock primitive was introduced to speedup some user context socket manipulation. But it is unsafe to protect two threads, one using regular lock_sock/release_sock, one using lock_sock_bh/unlock_sock_bh This patch changes lock_sock_bh to be careful against 'owned' state. If owned is found to be set, we must take the slow path. lock_sock_bh() now returns a boolean to say if the slow path was taken, and this boolean is used at unlock_sock_bh time to call the appropriate unlock function. After this change, BH are either disabled or enabled during the lock_sock_bh/unlock_sock_bh protected section. This might be misleading, so we rename these functions to lock_sock_fast()/unlock_sock_fast(). Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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