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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/ipv6 | |
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/ipv6')
-rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index f6e288dc116e..ef29cfd936d3 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | |||
@@ -158,9 +158,14 @@ static int tcp_v6_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum) | |||
158 | tcp_port_rover = rover; | 158 | tcp_port_rover = rover; |
159 | spin_unlock(&tcp_portalloc_lock); | 159 | spin_unlock(&tcp_portalloc_lock); |
160 | 160 | ||
161 | /* Exhausted local port range during search? */ | 161 | /* Exhausted local port range during search? It is not |
162 | * possible for us to be holding one of the bind hash | ||
163 | * locks if this test triggers, because if 'remaining' | ||
164 | * drops to zero, we broke out of the do/while loop at | ||
165 | * the top level, not from the 'break;' statement. | ||
166 | */ | ||
162 | ret = 1; | 167 | ret = 1; |
163 | if (remaining <= 0) | 168 | if (unlikely(remaining <= 0)) |
164 | goto fail; | 169 | goto fail; |
165 | 170 | ||
166 | /* OK, here is the one we will use. */ | 171 | /* OK, here is the one we will use. */ |