On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 08:45 -0800, Tonghao Zhang wrote: >> In some case, we want to know how many sockets are in use in >> different _net_ namespaces. It's a key resource metric. >> > > ... > >> +static void sock_inuse_add(struct net *net, int val) >> +{ >> + if (net->core.prot_inuse) >> + this_cpu_add(*net->core.sock_inuse, val); >> +} > > This is very confusing. > > Why testing net->core.prot_inuse for NULL is needed at all ? > > Why not testing net->core.sock_inuse instead ?
I bet that is copy-n-paste error given that sock_inuse_exit_net() has a similar typo.