Re: [PATCH 1/8] af_unix: take address assignment/hash insertion into a new helper

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Feb 20 2021 - 14:33:51 EST


On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 11:12:33AM -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:22 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Duplicated logics in all bind variants (autobind, bind-to-path,
> > bind-to-abstract) gets taken into a common helper.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/unix/af_unix.c | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > index 41c3303c3357..179b4fe837e6 100644
> > --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> > @@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ static void __unix_insert_socket(struct hlist_head *list, struct sock *sk)
> > sk_add_node(sk, list);
> > }
> >
> > +static void __unix_set_addr(struct sock *sk, struct unix_address *addr,
> > + unsigned hash)
> > + __releases(&unix_table_lock)
> > +{
> > + __unix_remove_socket(sk);
> > + smp_store_release(&unix_sk(sk)->addr, addr);
> > + __unix_insert_socket(&unix_socket_table[hash], sk);
> > + spin_unlock(&unix_table_lock);
>
> Please take the unlock out, it is clearly an anti-pattern.

Why? "Insert into locked and unlock" is fairly common...

> And please Cc netdev for networking changes.

Sorry about that - I'd ended up emulating git send-email by hand
and missed the Cc. Sorted out by now...