Re: Question on ipmr.c locking in 2.6.25
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-28 21:58:44
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-28 21:58:44
Ben Greear wrote:
It looks like this method can return without unlocking the mrt_lock or mfc_unres_lock. Is this a bug, or am I just confused about how it is supposed to work?
<snip> Since it returns without unlocking in the normal (not error) case, I would guess that's how it's supposed to work. The caller can uses the it->cache pointer to work out which lock (if any) it needs to unlock. Still, this is an unusual way of doing things, and rates about a 2 on Rusty's scale <http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/2008/03/30/> (though to be fair this is not critical for static functions). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.