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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-09-04 15:28:28 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-09-05 14:39:17 -0700
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rxrpc: Make service connection lookup always check for retry
When an RxRPC service packet comes in, the target connection is looked up by an rb-tree search under RCU and a read-locked seqlock; the seqlock retry check is, however, currently skipped if we got a match, but probably shouldn't be in case the connection we found gets replaced whilst we're doing a search. Make the lookup procedure always go through need_seqretry(), even if the lookup was successful. This makes sure we always pick up on a write-lock event. On the other hand, since we don't take a ref on the object, but rely on RCU to prevent its destruction after dropping the seqlock, I'm not sure this is necessary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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