Re: [PATCH] net: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners

Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-11-26T15:56:10Z

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:20:31AM -0800, Nagendra Tomar (tomer_iisc@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > Frankly I did not find how those optimizations made a bug
> > as well as
> > what is this bug about from given description, but I'm glad
> > it is resolved now :)
> >
>
> I'm not sure of what all went into the "optimization" patch, but the bug is not due to the optimization per-se. As my original post says, it is due to the 'bsockets' and 'num_owners' not being incremented inside __inet_inherit_port(), where it should have been, as __inet_put_port() decrements them on port release, which causes the imbalance.

Argh, I see, thanks a lot for explanation!

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Evgeniy Polyakov