We never use RCU protection for it, just a lot of cargo-cult rcu_deference_protects calls. Note that we do keep the kfree_rcu call for it, as the references through struct sock are RCU protected and thus might require a grace period before freeing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- include/linux/net.h | 2 +- include/net/sock.h | 2 +- net/socket.c | 10 ++++------ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h index 08b6eb964dd6..2be0d5368315 100644 --- a/include/linux/net.h +++ b/include/linux/net.h @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct socket { unsigned long flags; - struct socket_wq __rcu *wq; + struct socket_wq *wq; struct file *file; struct sock *sk; diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index b3b75419eafe..ad85d37c83c8 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ static inline void sock_graft(struct sock *sk, struct socket *parent) { WARN_ON(parent->sk); write_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock); - sk->sk_wq = parent->wq; + rcu_assign_pointer(sk->sk_wq, parent->wq); parent->sk = sk; sk_set_socket(sk, parent); sk->sk_uid = SOCK_INODE(parent)->i_uid; diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 0f397fa33614..fe6620607b07 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static struct inode *sock_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) init_waitqueue_head(&wq->wait); wq->fasync_list = NULL; wq->flags = 0; - RCU_INIT_POINTER(ei->socket.wq, wq); + ei->socket.wq = wq; ei->socket.state = SS_UNCONNECTED; ei->socket.flags = 0; @@ -269,11 +269,9 @@ static struct inode *sock_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) static void sock_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { struct socket_alloc *ei; - struct socket_wq *wq; ei = container_of(inode, struct socket_alloc, vfs_inode); - wq = rcu_dereference_protected(ei->socket.wq, 1); - kfree_rcu(wq, rcu); + kfree_rcu(ei->socket.wq, rcu); kmem_cache_free(sock_inode_cachep, ei); } @@ -607,7 +605,7 @@ static void __sock_release(struct socket *sock, struct inode *inode) module_put(owner); } - if (rcu_dereference_protected(sock->wq, 1)->fasync_list) + if (sock->wq->fasync_list) pr_err("%s: fasync list not empty!\n", __func__); if (!sock->file) { @@ -1211,7 +1209,7 @@ static int sock_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on) return -EINVAL; lock_sock(sk); - wq = rcu_dereference_protected(sock->wq, lockdep_sock_is_held(sk)); + wq = sock->wq; fasync_helper(fd, filp, on, &wq->fasync_list); if (!wq->fasync_list) -- 2.17.1