Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 3 authors, 2011-03-13

Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost-net: use lock_sock_fast() in peek_head_len()

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-13 16:32:15
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Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 18:19 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin a écrit :
Other side is in drivers/net/tun.c and net/packet/af_packet.c
At least wrt tun it seems clear socket is not locked.
Yes (assuming you refer to tun_net_xmit())
Besides queue, dequeue seems to be done without socket locked.
It seems this code (assuming you speak of drivers/vhost/net.c ?) has
some races indeed.
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