netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] tcp: allow again tcp_disconnect() when threads are waiting

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:53:39 +0800
From: Xin Guo <guoxin0309@...il.com>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	Ayush Sawal <ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, 
	Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>, Tom Deseyn <tdeseyn@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] tcp: allow again tcp_disconnect() when threads are waiting

Hi.
My apologizes, i will send my clarifying to you separately later.
and thanks for your suggestion and clarifying.

Regards
Guo Xin

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 5:25 PM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:42 +0800, Xin Guo wrote:
> > In my view, this patch is NOT so good, and it seems that trying to fix
> > a problem temporarily without knowing its root cause,
>
> First thing first, please avoid top posting when replying to the ML.
>
> I don't follow the above statement. The root case of the problem
> addressed here is stated in the commit message: the blamed commit
> explicitly disables a functionality used by the user-space. We must
> avoid breaking the user-space.
>
> > because sk_wait_event function should know nothing about the other
> > functions were called or not,
> > but now this patch added a logic to let sk_wait_event know the
> > specific tcp_dissconnect function was called by other threads or NOT,
> > honestly speaking, it is NOT a good designation,
>
> Why?
>
> > so what is root cause about the problem which [0] commit want to fix?
>
> The mentioned commit changelog is quite descriptive about the problem,
> please read it.
>
> > can we have a way to fix it directly instead of denying
> > tcp_disconnect() when threads are waiting?
>
> Yes, this patch.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paolo
>