lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2013]   [Nov]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] inet: fix possible seqlock deadlocks
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:51:22AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> In commit c9e9042994d3 ("ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock") I left
> another places where IP_INC_STATS_BH() were improperly used.
>
> udp_sendmsg(), ping_v4_sendmsg() and tcp_v4_connect() are called from
> process context, not from softirq context.
>
> This was detected by lockdep seqlock support.
>
> Reported-by: jongman heo <jongman.heo@samsung.com>
> Fixes: 584bdf8cbdf6 ("[IPV4]: Fix "ipOutNoRoutes" counter error for TCP and UDP")
> Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

Just got home after getting distracted with other things today and the work is
already done. Thanks, Eric! ;)

Exactly the spots I noticed this morning, so

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

Should we do something about the naming? I find it rather dangerous because
they look like the _bh lock postfixes but act exactly in the opposite?

Greetings,

Hannes



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2013-11-28 19:41    [W:0.126 / U:0.692 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site