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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RT PATCH 1/2] net: add back the missing serialization in ip_send_unicast_reply()
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:36:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831163613.dg5hgb6l2jd5b5ms@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160831121553.6aea5cda@gandalf.local.home>

On 2016-08-31 12:15:53 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > @@ -689,10 +691,13 @@ static void tcp_v4_send_reset(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> >  		     offsetof(struct inet_timewait_sock, tw_bound_dev_if));
> >  
> >  	arg.tos = ip_hdr(skb)->tos;
> > +
> > +	local_lock(tcp_sk_lock);
> 
> Interesting that I noticed in mainline, they have:
> 
> 	local_bh_disable();
> 
> here.
> 
> I'm surprised we don't have a local_lock_bh() or something to that
> effect.

Turning local_bh_disable() into local_lock_bh(). One side effect would
be that the network driver will be flushed out / waited for completion
during socket write (due to the spin_lock_bh()). Not sure how much fun
all this will bring.
We could try this…

> -- Steve

Sebastian

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-31 16:00 [RT PATCH 1/2] net: add back the missing serialization in ip_send_unicast_reply() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-31 16:00 ` [RT PATCH 2/2] net: add a lock around icmp_sk() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-31 16:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-08-31 17:03     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-09-01  8:11     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-09-01 13:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-08-31 16:15 ` [RT PATCH 1/2] net: add back the missing serialization in ip_send_unicast_reply() Steven Rostedt
2016-08-31 16:36   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]

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