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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove sock_iocb
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:22:11 -0800 (PST)
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:04:53 +0100

> The sock_iocb structure is allocate on stack for each read/write-like
> operation on sockets, and contains various fields of which only the
> embedded msghdr and sometimes a pointer to the scm_cookie is ever used.
> Get rid of the sock_iocb and put a msghdr directly on the stack and pass
> the scm_cookie explicitly to netlink_mmap_sendmsg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks good, applied, thanks.