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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is ->sendmsg() allowed to change the msghdr struct it is given?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:22:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230626142257.6e14a801@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3112097.1687814081@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:14:41 +0100 David Howells wrote:
> Do you know if ->sendmsg() might alter the msghdr struct it is passed as an
> argument? Certainly it can alter msg_iter, but can it also modify,
> say, msg_flags?

I'm not aware of a precedent either way.
Eric or Paolo would know better than me, tho.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-26 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-26 21:14 Is ->sendmsg() allowed to change the msghdr struct it is given? David Howells
2023-06-26 21:22 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-27 12:51   ` Paolo Abeni
2023-06-27 12:54     ` Paolo Abeni
2023-06-27 13:09     ` David Howells
2023-06-27 13:51       ` Paolo Abeni

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