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Eric Dumazet authored
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: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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