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af_unix: update locking comment

Message ID 1300047106-8545-1-git-send-email-dbaluta@ixiacom.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Daniel Baluta March 13, 2011, 8:11 p.m. UTC 
From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>

We latch our state using a spinlock not a r/w kind of lock.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
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 net/unix/af_unix.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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David Miller March 14, 2011, 10:26 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: dbaluta@ixiacom.com
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:11:46 +0200

> We latch our state using a spinlock not a r/w kind of lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>

Applied, thanks.
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diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index de87018..ef70615 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@  restart:
 
 	/* 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
 	   possible. Connect to self case and simultaneous
 	   attempt to connect are eliminated by checking socket