> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Maloy [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:49 AM
> To: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]; Ying Xue <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [tipc-discussion] [PATCH net v1 4/6] tipc: lock wakeup & inputq
> at tipc_link_reset()
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan
> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 07:54 AM
> > To: [email protected]; Jon Maloy
> > <[email protected]>; Ying Xue <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [PATCH net v1 4/6] tipc: lock wakeup & inputq at
> > tipc_link_reset()
> >
> > Until now, in tipc_link_reset() we call copy the wakeup queue to input
> > queue using skb_queue_splice_init(link->wakeupq, link->inputq).
> > This is performed without holding any locks. This list might be
> > simultaneously be accessed by other cpu threads in tipc_sk_rcv() and
> > that leads to random missing packets.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan
> > <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  net/tipc/link.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c index
> > ddd2dd6f77aa..722b82a884dc 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/link.c
> > +++ b/net/tipc/link.c
> > @@ -829,9 +829,14 @@ void tipc_link_reset(struct tipc_link *l)
> >     l->peer_session = ANY_SESSION;
> >     l->session++;
> >     l->mtu = l->advertised_mtu;
> > +   spin_lock_bh(&l->wakeupq.lock);
> > +   spin_lock_bh(&l->inputq->lock);
> > +   skb_queue_splice_init(&l->wakeupq, l->inputq);
> > +   spin_unlock_bh(&l->inputq->lock);
> > +   spin_unlock_bh(&l->wakeupq.lock);
> > +
> 
> I don't think you need to lock wakeupq here, since it is never touched
> outside the link lock scope.
> Actually, I don't see why this queue has a lock at all, it must be a missed
> remnant from the previous implementation.
> 
> ///jon

On a second thought, just leave it like this. We know that it works, and that 
is all that counts for now.
We can remove the lock and its usage in a later patch to net-next.

Acked-by: 
///jon
 
> 
> >     __skb_queue_purge(&l->transmq);
> >     __skb_queue_purge(&l->deferdq);
> > -   skb_queue_splice_init(&l->wakeupq, l->inputq);
> >     __skb_queue_purge(&l->backlogq);
> >     l->backlog[TIPC_LOW_IMPORTANCE].len = 0;
> >     l->backlog[TIPC_MEDIUM_IMPORTANCE].len = 0;
> > --
> > 2.1.4
> 
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