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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-08-23 13:49:54 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-08-23 13:49:54 -0400 |
commit | d5d283751ef3c05b6766501a46800cbee84959d6 (patch) | |
tree | c8de7a2dbd69efb233f1b051bdfceed7eded379a /net/ipv4 | |
parent | 89ebd197eb2cd31d6187db344d5117064e19fdde (diff) |
[TCP]: Document non-trivial locking path in tcp_v{4,6}_get_port().
This trips up a lot of folks reading this code.
Put an unlikely() around the port-exhaustion test
for good measure.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c index 5d91213d34c0..67c670886c1f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | |||
@@ -242,9 +242,14 @@ static int tcp_v4_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum) | |||
242 | tcp_port_rover = rover; | 242 | tcp_port_rover = rover; |
243 | spin_unlock(&tcp_portalloc_lock); | 243 | spin_unlock(&tcp_portalloc_lock); |
244 | 244 | ||
245 | /* Exhausted local port range during search? */ | 245 | /* Exhausted local port range during search? It is not |
246 | * possible for us to be holding one of the bind hash | ||
247 | * locks if this test triggers, because if 'remaining' | ||
248 | * drops to zero, we broke out of the do/while loop at | ||
249 | * the top level, not from the 'break;' statement. | ||
250 | */ | ||
246 | ret = 1; | 251 | ret = 1; |
247 | if (remaining <= 0) | 252 | if (unlikely(remaining <= 0)) |
248 | goto fail; | 253 | goto fail; |
249 | 254 | ||
250 | /* OK, here is the one we will use. HEAD is | 255 | /* OK, here is the one we will use. HEAD is |