From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:08:29 +0200
> There are races involving the garbage collector, that can throw away
> perfectly good packets with AF_UNIX sockets in them.
>
> The problems arise when a socket goes from installed to in-flight or
> vice versa during garbage collection. Since gc is done with a
> spinlock held, this only shows up on SMP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
I'm going to hold off on this one for now.
Holding all of the read locks kind of defeats the purpose of using
the per-socket lock.
Can't you just lock purely around the receive queue operation?
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