From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>,
Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>,
Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, mptcp@lists.linux.dev,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] socket: Replace most sock_create() calls with sock_create_kern().
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 07:35:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250526053555.GG11639@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250523182128.59346-7-kuniyu@amazon.com>
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 11:21:12AM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> Except for only one user, sctp_do_peeloff(), all sockets created
> by drivers and fs are not tied to userspace processes nor exposed
> via file descriptors.
>
> Let's use sock_create_kern() for such in-kernel use cases as CIFS
> client and NFS.
So if sock_create is now almost unused and the special case, should
it also be renamed to make that explicit and make people not accidentally
use it by default?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-26 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-23 18:21 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] socket: Make sock_create_kern() robust against misuse Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/7] socket: Un-export __sock_create() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-26 5:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-26 10:06 ` David Laight
2025-05-30 2:42 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] socket: Rename sock_create_kern() to __sock_create_kern() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-26 5:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-29 21:29 ` David Laight
2025-05-30 3:05 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-30 6:48 ` David Laight
2025-05-30 2:45 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/7] socket: Restore sock_create_kern() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-26 5:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-30 2:53 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-06-02 5:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-03 21:30 ` David Laight
2025-06-04 18:36 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/7] smb: client: Add missing net_passive_dec() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/7] socket: Remove kernel socket conversion except for net/rds/ Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-26 5:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-30 2:59 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-06-02 5:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] socket: Replace most sock_create() calls with sock_create_kern() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-26 5:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-26 5:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-05-30 3:03 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-06-02 5:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-02 21:52 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-06-03 4:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-04 18:20 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-06-05 4:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] socket: Clean up kdoc for sock_create() and sock_create_lite() Kuniyuki Iwashima
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