From: jbaron@akamai.com Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:05:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: tcp: add memory barriers to write space paths X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~1901^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c7151275c0c9a80c3375f9874b1c7129a105eea;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git tcp: add memory barriers to write space paths Ensure that we either see that the buffer has write space in tcp_poll() or that we perform a wakeup from the input side. Did not run into any actual problem here, but thought that we should make things explicit. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 59c8a027721b..8c5cd9efebbc 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -520,8 +520,10 @@ unsigned int tcp_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock, poll_table *wait) /* Race breaker. If space is freed after * wspace test but before the flags are set, - * IO signal will be lost. + * IO signal will be lost. Memory barrier + * pairs with the input side. */ + smp_mb__after_atomic(); if (sk_stream_is_writeable(sk)) mask |= POLLOUT | POLLWRNORM; } diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index a7ef679dd3ea..3a4d9b34bed4 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -4845,6 +4845,8 @@ static void tcp_check_space(struct sock *sk) { if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK)) { sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK); + /* pairs with tcp_poll() */ + smp_mb__after_atomic(); if (sk->sk_socket && test_bit(SOCK_NOSPACE, &sk->sk_socket->flags)) tcp_new_space(sk);