netdev - netlink: Kill bogus lock_sock in netlink

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Message-ID: <20150514060230.GD6058@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 14:02:30 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Subject: netlink: Kill bogus lock_sock in netlink_insert

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:58:24PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> This patch also removes a bogus socket lock introduced by that
> very same patch.

This bogus socket lock is still there in the current tree.

---8<---
The commit c5adde9468b0714a051eac7f9666f23eb10b61f7 ("netlink:
eliminate nl_sk_hash_lock") added a lock_sock to netlink_insert
with no justifications whatsoever.

This patch kills it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index ec4adbd..9460561 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1063,8 +1063,6 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid)
 	struct netlink_table *table = &nl_table[sk->sk_protocol];
 	int err;
 
-	lock_sock(sk);
-
 	err = -EBUSY;
 	if (nlk_sk(sk)->portid)
 		goto err;
@@ -1085,7 +1083,6 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid)
 	}
 
 err:
-	release_sock(sk);
 	return err;
 }
 
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