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Commit 67db3e4b authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: no longer hold ehash lock while calling tcp_get_info()

We had various problems in the past in tcp_get_info() and used
specific synchronization to avoid deadlocks.

We would like to add more instrumentation points for TCP, and
avoiding grabing socket lock in tcp_getinfo() was too costly.

Being able to lock the socket allows to provide consistent set
of fields.

inet_diag_dump_icsk() can make sure ehash locks are not
held any more when tcp_get_info() is called.

We can remove syncp added in commit d654976c


("tcp: fix a potential deadlock in tcp_get_info()"), but we need
to use lock_sock_fast() instead of spin_lock_bh() since TCP input
path can now be run from process context.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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