netdev - [PATCH v1 net-next 03/13] tcp: Simplify error path in inet_csk

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Message-ID: <20250721203624.3807041-4-kuniyu@google.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:35:22 +0000
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>, 
	Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, 
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, 
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>, 
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, 
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 net-next 03/13] tcp: Simplify error path in inet_csk_accept().

When an error occurs in inet_csk_accept(), what we should do is
only call release_sock() and set the errno to arg->err.

But the path jumps to another label, which introduces unnecessary
initialisation and tests for newsk.

Let's simplify the error path and remove the redundant NULL
checks for newsk.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 1e2df51427fed..724bd9ed6cd48 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ struct sock *inet_csk_accept(struct sock *sk, struct proto_accept_arg *arg)
 		spin_unlock_bh(&queue->fastopenq.lock);
 	}
 
-out:
 	release_sock(sk);
-	if (newsk && mem_cgroup_sockets_enabled) {
+
+	if (mem_cgroup_sockets_enabled) {
 		gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL;
 		int amt = 0;
 
@@ -732,18 +732,17 @@ struct sock *inet_csk_accept(struct sock *sk, struct proto_accept_arg *arg)
 
 		release_sock(newsk);
 	}
+
 	if (req)
 		reqsk_put(req);
 
-	if (newsk)
-		inet_init_csk_locks(newsk);
-
+	inet_init_csk_locks(newsk);
 	return newsk;
+
 out_err:
-	newsk = NULL;
-	req = NULL;
+	release_sock(sk);
 	arg->err = error;
-	goto out;
+	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_csk_accept);
 
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2.50.0.727.gbf7dc18ff4-goog