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authorjbaron@akamai.com <jbaron@akamai.com>2015-04-20 20:05:07 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-04-21 15:57:34 -0400
commit3c7151275c0c9a80c3375f9874b1c7129a105eea (patch)
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parentaltera tse: Error-Bit on tx-avalon-stream always set. (diff)
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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 <jbaron@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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;
}