[PATCH net-2.6.25][NEIGH] Make neigh_add_timer symmetrical to neigh_del_timer

[PATCH net-2.6.25][NEIGH] Make neigh_add_timer symmetrical to neigh_del_timer

[Pavel Emelyanov]

The neigh_del_timer() looks sane - it removes the timer and
(conditionally) puts the neighbor. I expected, that the
neigh_add_timer() is symmetrical to the del one - i.e. it
holds the neighbor and arms the timer - but it turned out
that it was not so.

I think, that making them look symmetrical makes the code 
more readable.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

---


diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 4b6dd1e..9a283fc 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -165,6 +165,16 @@ static int neigh_forced_gc(struct neigh_table *tbl)
 	return shrunk;
 }
 
+static void neigh_add_timer(struct neighbour *n, unsigned long when)
+{
+	neigh_hold(n);
+	if (unlikely(mod_timer(&n->timer, when))) {
+		printk("NEIGH: BUG, double timer add, state is %x\n",
+		       n->nud_state);
+		dump_stack();
+	}
+}
+
 static int neigh_del_timer(struct neighbour *n)
 {
 	if ((n->nud_state & NUD_IN_TIMER) &&
@@ -716,15 +726,6 @@ static __inline__ int neigh_max_probes(struct neighbour *n)
 		p->ucast_probes + p->app_probes + p->mcast_probes);
 }
 
-static inline void neigh_add_timer(struct neighbour *n, unsigned long when)
-{
-	if (unlikely(mod_timer(&n->timer, when))) {
-		printk("NEIGH: BUG, double timer add, state is %x\n",
-		       n->nud_state);
-		dump_stack();
-	}
-}
-
 /* Called when a timer expires for a neighbour entry. */
 
 static void neigh_timer_handler(unsigned long arg)
@@ -856,7 +857,6 @@ int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			atomic_set(&neigh->probes, neigh->parms->ucast_probes);
 			neigh->nud_state     = NUD_INCOMPLETE;
 			neigh->updated = jiffies;
-			neigh_hold(neigh);
 			neigh_add_timer(neigh, now + 1);
 		} else {
 			neigh->nud_state = NUD_FAILED;
@@ -869,7 +869,6 @@ int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		}
 	} else if (neigh->nud_state & NUD_STALE) {
 		NEIGH_PRINTK2("neigh %p is delayed.\n", neigh);
-		neigh_hold(neigh);
 		neigh->nud_state = NUD_DELAY;
 		neigh->updated = jiffies;
 		neigh_add_timer(neigh,
@@ -1013,13 +1012,11 @@ int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new,
 
 	if (new != old) {
 		neigh_del_timer(neigh);
-		if (new & NUD_IN_TIMER) {
-			neigh_hold(neigh);
+		if (new & NUD_IN_TIMER)
 			neigh_add_timer(neigh, (jiffies +
 						((new & NUD_REACHABLE) ?
 						 neigh->parms->reachable_time :
 						 0)));
-		}
 		neigh->nud_state = new;
 	}
 

Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25][NEIGH] Make neigh_add_timer symmetrical to neigh_del_timer

[David Miller]

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:50:37 +0300

> The neigh_del_timer() looks sane - it removes the timer and
> (conditionally) puts the neighbor. I expected, that the
> neigh_add_timer() is symmetrical to the del one - i.e. it
> holds the neighbor and arms the timer - but it turned out
> that it was not so.
> 
> I think, that making them look symmetrical makes the code 
> more readable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

I agree, it looks more reable now, applied.

This code used to be a lot worse, I think we had some
confusion about whether the timer should always not be
pending in these circumstances.  But that was a bug
fix from a long time ago, however I believe that's
where the dump_stack() bug check came from in the
add timer case.