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    af_unix: Remove lock dance in unix_peek_fds(). · 118f457d
    Kuniyuki Iwashima authored
    In the previous GC implementation, the shape of the inflight socket
    graph was not expected to change while GC was in progress.
    
    MSG_PEEK was tricky because it could install inflight fd silently
    and transform the graph.
    
    Let's say we peeked a fd, which was a listening socket, and accept()ed
    some embryo sockets from it.  The garbage collection algorithm would
    have been confused because the set of sockets visited in scan_inflight()
    would change within the same GC invocation.
    
    That's why we placed spin_lock(&unix_gc_lock) and spin_unlock() in
    unix_peek_fds() with a fat comment.
    
    In the new GC implementation, we no longer garbage-collect the socket
    if it exists in another queue, that is, if it has a bridge to another
    SCC.  Also, accept() will require the lock if it has edges.
    
    Thus, we need not do the complicated lock dance.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401173125.92184-3-kuniyu@amazon.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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