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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-05-26 19:20:18 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-27 00:30:53 -0700
commit8a74ad60a546b13bd1096b2a61a7a5c6fd9ae17c (patch)
tree3110e7e59883597b5d0f617e8507e15b8f965f3f /include/net
parenta56635a56f2afb3d22d9ce07e8f8d69537416b2d (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/sock.h20
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index d2a71b04a5a..ca241ea1487 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1026,15 +1026,23 @@ extern void release_sock(struct sock *sk);
SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING)
#define bh_unlock_sock(__sk) spin_unlock(&((__sk)->sk_lock.slock))
-static inline void lock_sock_bh(struct sock *sk)
+extern bool lock_sock_fast(struct sock *sk);
+/**
+ * unlock_sock_fast - complement of lock_sock_fast
+ * @sk: socket
+ * @slow: slow mode
+ *
+ * fast unlock socket for user context.
+ * If slow mode is on, we call regular release_sock()
+ */
+static inline void unlock_sock_fast(struct sock *sk, bool slow)
{
- spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
+ if (slow)
+ release_sock(sk);
+ else
+ spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
}
-static inline void unlock_sock_bh(struct sock *sk)
-{
- spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
-}
extern struct sock *sk_alloc(struct net *net, int family,
gfp_t priority,