[rds-devel] [PATCH net v2 0/2] RDS: TCP: sychronization during connection startup

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue May 3 13:05:04 PDT 2016


From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>
Date: Mon,  2 May 2016 11:24:50 -0700

> This patch series ensures that the passive (accept) side of the
> TCP connection used for RDS-TCP is correctly synchronized with
> any concurrent active (connect) attempts for a given pair of peers.
> 
> Patch 1 in the series makes sure that the t_sock in struct 
> rds_tcp_connection is only reset after any threads in rds_tcp_xmit
> have completed (otherwise a null-ptr deref may be encountered). 
> Patch 2 synchronizes rds_tcp_accept_one() with the rds_tcp*connect()
> path.
> 
> v2: review comments from Santosh Shilimkar, other spelling corrections

Series applied, thanks.



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