On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:32:33AM -0400, Michal Ostrowski wrote:
> Having looked at the code for locking sockets I am concerned that the
> locking procedures for tcp may be wrong. __release_sock releases the
> socket spinlock before calling sk->backlog_rcv() (== tcp_v4_do_rcv),
> however the comments at the top of tcp_v4_do_rcv() assert that the
> socket's spinlock is held (which is definitely not the case).
>
> Anybody care to comment on this?
Looks ok for me.
The user socket lock (lock.users>0) is held while __release_sock runs,
which is also sufficient to protect it as all new packets will go into backlog.
The spinlock comment only applies to bottom halves.
-Andi
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