struct hlist_head chain;
};
-/*
- * Sockets can be hashed in established or listening table
+/* Sockets can be hashed in established or listening table.
+ * We must use different 'nulls' end-of-chain value for all hash buckets :
+ * A socket might transition from ESTABLISH to LISTEN state without
+ * RCU grace period. A lookup in ehash table needs to handle this case.
*/
+#define LISTENING_NULLS_BASE (1U << 29)
struct inet_listen_hashbucket {
spinlock_t lock;
- struct hlist_head head;
+ union {
+ struct hlist_head head;
+ struct hlist_nulls_head nulls_head;
+ };
};
/* This is for listening sockets, thus all sockets which possess wildcards. */