netdev - Re: [PATCH net] af_unix: take receive queue lock while appending new skb

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:29:42 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] af_unix: take receive queue lock while appending
 new skb

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 15:55 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I want to move to unix_state_lock and completely drop sk_buff_head.lock
> in af_unix, as such I would prefer to keep it this way as in some other
> places in af_unix.c (e.g. unix_stream_connect).
> 
> Or do you have a strong opinion on that?


I am saying we use 2 times skb_queue_tail(), one time skb_unlink(),
and 2 times skb_queue_purge(), all using spin_lock_irqsave()

But you took the single __skb_queue_tail() that was present in this
file ;)

No strong opinion, just a matter of simplicity and code size.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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