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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)
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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 'net/core/sock.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c33
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 37fe9b6..2cf7f9f 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -2007,6 +2007,39 @@ void release_sock(struct sock *sk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_sock);
+/**
+ * lock_sock_fast - fast version of lock_sock
+ * @sk: socket
+ *
+ * This version should be used for very small section, where process wont block
+ * return false if fast path is taken
+ * sk_lock.slock locked, owned = 0, BH disabled
+ * return true if slow path is taken
+ * sk_lock.slock unlocked, owned = 1, BH enabled
+ */
+bool lock_sock_fast(struct sock *sk)
+{
+ might_sleep();
+ spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
+
+ if (!sk->sk_lock.owned)
+ /*
+ * Note : We must disable BH
+ */
+ return false;
+
+ __lock_sock(sk);
+ sk->sk_lock.owned = 1;
+ spin_unlock(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
+ /*
+ * The sk_lock has mutex_lock() semantics here:
+ */
+ mutex_acquire(&sk->sk_lock.dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
+ local_bh_enable();
+ return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_sock_fast);
+
int sock_get_timestamp(struct sock *sk, struct timeval __user *userstamp)
{
struct timeval tv;