On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 22:15 +0800, Lin Ming wrote: > Will it still has problem if code goes here without sock_hold(sk)?
Not sure of what you mean. At the time tcp_write_timer() runs, we own one reference on the socket. (this reference was taken in sk_reset_timer()) On old kernels, if we found the socket locked by the user, we used to rearm the timer for a 50ms delay (and thus did sock_hold() again) Another way to avoid the bug would to make sure sk_reset_timer() increases refcount _before_ setting the timer, but its adding one atomic in fast path... diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index 8f67ced..d1745b7 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -2114,8 +2114,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_send_sigurg); void sk_reset_timer(struct sock *sk, struct timer_list* timer, unsigned long expires) { - if (!mod_timer(timer, expires)) - sock_hold(sk); + sock_hold(sk); + if (mod_timer(timer, expires)) + __sock_put(sk); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_reset_timer); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/