We had various problems in the past in tcp_get_info() and used
specific synchronization to avoid deadlocks.
We would like to add more instrumentation points for TCP, and
avoiding grabing socket lock in tcp_getinfo() was too costly.
Being able to lock the socket allows to provide consistent set
of fields.
inet_diag_dump_icsk() can make sure ehash locks are not
held any more when tcp_get_info() is called.
We can remove syncp added in commit d654976cbf
("tcp: fix a potential deadlock in tcp_get_info()"), but we need
to use lock_sock_fast() instead of spin_lock_bh() since TCP input
path can now be run from process context.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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