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Commit f2f2a96a authored by Ying Xue's avatar Ying Xue Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: feed tipc sock pointer to tipc_sk_timeout routine



In order to make tipc socket table aware of namespace, a networking
namespace instance must be passed to tipc_sk_lookup(), allowing it
to look up tipc socket instance with a given port ID from a concrete
socket table. However, as now tipc_sk_timeout() only has one port ID
parameter and is not namespace aware, it's unable to obtain a correct
socket instance through tipc_sk_lookup() just with a port ID,
especially after namespace is completely supported.

If port ID is replaced with socket instance as tipc_sk_timeout()'s
parameter, it's unnecessary to look up socket table. But as the timer
handler - tipc_sk_timeout() is run asynchronously, socket reference
must be held before its timer is launched, and must be carefully
checked to identify whether the socket reference needs to be put or
not when its timer is terminated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 859fc7c0
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