From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:56:57 +0000 Subject: Re: get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt Message-Id: <20200722075657.GB26554@lst.de> List-Id: References: <20200720124737.118617-1-hch@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20200720124737.118617-1-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dccp@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:47:56PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > a kernel pointer. This is something that works for most common sockopts > > (and is something that the ePBF support relies on), but unfortunately > > in various corner cases we either don't use the passed in length, or in > > one case actually copy data back from setsockopt, so we unfortunately > > can't just always do the copy in the highlevel code, which would have > > been much nicer. > > could you rebase on bpf-next tree and we can route it this way then? > we'll also test the whole thing before applying. The bpf-next tree is missing all my previous setsockopt cleanups, so there series won't apply.