Commit e5537bfc authored by Daniel Baluta's avatar Daniel Baluta Committed by David S. Miller

af_unix: update locking comment

We latch our state using a spinlock not a r/w kind of lock.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 468c3f92
...@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static int unix_stream_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, ...@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ static int unix_stream_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
/* Latch our state. /* Latch our state.
It is tricky place. We need to grab write lock and cannot It is tricky place. We need to grab our state lock and cannot
drop lock on peer. It is dangerous because deadlock is drop lock on peer. It is dangerous because deadlock is
possible. Connect to self case and simultaneous possible. Connect to self case and simultaneous
attempt to connect are eliminated by checking socket attempt to connect are eliminated by checking socket
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