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Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:22:57 -0700
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?
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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.