netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: ensure proper barriers in lockless contexts

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Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:37:03 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: ensure proper barriers in lockless contexts

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:43:18 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Some functions access TCP sockets without holding a lock and
> might output non consistent data, depending on compiler and or
> architecture.
> 
> tcp_diag_get_info(), tcp_get_info(), tcp_poll(), get_tcp4_sock() ...
> 
> Introduce sk_state_load() and sk_state_store() to fix the issues,
> and more clearly document where this lack of locking is happening.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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