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

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Date:   Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:32:44 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] af_unix: take address assignment/hash insertion into
 a new helper

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@...iv.linux.org.uk> 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@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> >  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...