Re: [PATCH v2 net] net/smc: postpone sk_refcnt increment in connect()

From: liuyacan
Date: Mon May 23 2022 - 10:19:23 EST


> This is a rather unusual problem that can come up when fallback=true BEFORE smc_connect()
> is called. But nevertheless, it is a problem.
>
> Right now I am not sure if it is okay when we NOT hold a ref to smc->sk during all fallback
> processing. This change also conflicts with a patch that is already on net-next (3aba1030).

Do you mean put the ref to smc->sk during all fallback processing unconditionally and remove
the fallback branch sock_put() in __smc_release()?

> With the new patch on net-next it would also be possible to detect in __smc_release() that
> the socket is in state sk->sk_state == SMC_INIT but the sock->state is SS_CONNECTING or
> SS_CONNECTED and call sock_put() in this case.
> What do you think?

Oh, I didn't notice this patch on net-next. Emm, I think I need to do some testing with this
patch.

Thank you.