From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
sdf.kernel@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: convert udp_lib_getsockopt to sockopt_t
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:58:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willemdebruijn.kernel.26a37316bb5e2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260612-getsockopt_phase2-v1-2-7b01f1f5d106@debian.org>
Breno Leitao wrote:
> In preparation for converting the proto-layer getsockopt callbacks to the
> sockopt_t interface, switch udp_lib_getsockopt() to take a sockopt_t.
What is the benefit of this conversion?
It does add a lot more complexity and makes the code less obvious.
> The thin udp_getsockopt()/udpv6_getsockopt() wrappers keep their __user
> signature for now: they build a user-backed sockopt_t with
> sockopt_init_user(), call the helper, and write the returned length back
> to optlen. The helper uses copy_to_iter() instead of copy_to_user().
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
> ---
> include/net/udp.h | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/udp.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> net/ipv6/udp.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/udp.h b/include/net/udp.h
> index 8262e2b215b4e..1fee17274745f 100644
> --- a/include/net/udp.h
> +++ b/include/net/udp.h
> @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_udp_tunnel_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
> netdev_features_t features,
> bool is_ipv6);
> int udp_lib_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> - char __user *optval, int __user *optlen);
> + sockopt_t *opt);
> int udp_lib_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> sockptr_t optval, unsigned int optlen,
> int (*push_pending_frames)(struct sock *));
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> index 70f6cbd4ef73b..0691f74db2c11 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
>
> #include <linux/bpf-cgroup.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/uio.h>
> #include <asm/ioctls.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> @@ -2995,18 +2996,12 @@ static int udp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, sockptr_t opt
> }
>
> int udp_lib_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> - char __user *optval, int __user *optlen)
> + sockopt_t *opt)
> {
> struct udp_sock *up = udp_sk(sk);
> int val, len;
>
> - if (get_user(len, optlen))
> - return -EFAULT;
> -
> - if (len < 0)
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> - len = min_t(unsigned int, len, sizeof(int));
> + len = min_t(unsigned int, opt->optlen, sizeof(int));
>
> switch (optname) {
> case UDP_CORK:
> @@ -3037,9 +3032,8 @@ int udp_lib_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> return -ENOPROTOOPT;
> }
>
> - if (put_user(len, optlen))
> - return -EFAULT;
> - if (copy_to_user(optval, &val, len))
> + opt->optlen = len;
> + if (copy_to_iter(&val, len, &opt->iter_out) != len)
> return -EFAULT;
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -3047,9 +3041,27 @@ int udp_lib_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> static int udp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> char __user *optval, int __user *optlen)
> {
> - if (level == SOL_UDP)
> - return udp_lib_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> - return ip_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> + sockopt_t opt;
> + int err;
> +
> + /*
> + * keep the old __user pointers, until ip_getsockopt() moves
> + * to sockopt_t
> + */
> + if (level != SOL_UDP)
> + return ip_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> +
> + err = sockopt_init_user(&opt, optval, optlen);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = udp_lib_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, &opt);
> + /* indepedendent of the err, return optlen */
typo
> + if (put_user(opt.optlen, optlen))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + /* Optval was updated in copy_to_iter in udp_lib_getsockopt() */
> +
> + return err;
> }
>
> /**
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> index 15e032194eccc..731122deed8a5 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> @@ -1826,9 +1826,20 @@ static int udpv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> static int udpv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> char __user *optval, int __user *optlen)
> {
> - if (level == SOL_UDP)
> - return udp_lib_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> - return ipv6_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> + sockopt_t opt;
> + int err;
> +
> + if (level != SOL_UDP)
> + return ipv6_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen);
> +
> + err = sockopt_init_user(&opt, optval, optlen);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = udp_lib_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, &opt);
> + if (put_user(opt.optlen, optlen))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + return err;
> }
>
>
>
> --
> 2.53.0-Meta
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-12 11:45 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: convert UDP getsockopt to sockopt_t Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:45 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: add sockopt_init_user() for getsockopt conversion Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:45 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: convert udp_lib_getsockopt to sockopt_t Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 14:58 ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2026-06-12 16:28 ` Breno Leitao
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