From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/17] get rid of the size argument of sock_sendmsg()
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:55:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150414.135535.190405308746783212.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150414163534.GZ889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:35:34 +0100
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:25:24PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>> From: Al Viro
>> > Sent: 11 April 2015 22:18
>> > it's equal to iov_iter_count(&msg->msg_iter) in all cases
>>
>> I don't know whether this is guaranteed for iov[] that come from
>> userspace.
>>
>> In any case iov_iter_count() is non-trivial and you don't
>> really want to call it when unnecessary.
>
> Really?
>
> static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
> {
> return i->count;
> }
This just made my day.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-14 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-11 21:17 [call for review] netdev-related stuff in vfs.git Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 01/17] fs: remove ki_nbytes Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 02/17] fuse: handle synchronous iocbs internally Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 03/17] fs: don't allow to complete sync iocbs through aio_complete Al Viro
2015-04-14 18:00 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-04-14 18:26 ` Al Viro
2015-04-14 18:37 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-04-14 19:22 ` Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 04/17] fs: split generic and aio kiocb Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 05/17] fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 06/17] saner iov_iter initialization primitives Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 07/17] RxRPC: Fix the conversion to iov_iter Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 08/17] RxRPC: Don't call skb_add_data() if there's no data to copy Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 09/17] RxRPC: Use iov_iter_count() in rxrpc_send_data() instead of the len argument Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 10/17] AFS: afs_send_empty_reply() doesn't require an iovec array Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 11/17] RxRPC: Handle VERSION Rx protocol packets Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 12/17] kafs: Add more "unified AFS" error codes Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 13/17] net: switch sendto() and recvfrom() to import_single_range() Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 14/17] net: switch importing msghdr from userland to {compat_,}import_iovec() Al Viro
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 15/17] switch kernel_sendmsg() and kernel_recvmsg() to iov_iter_kvec() Al Viro
2015-04-14 16:21 ` David Laight
2015-04-14 16:34 ` Al Viro
2015-04-14 16:36 ` David Laight
2015-04-14 16:59 ` Al Viro
2015-04-15 9:08 ` David Laight
2015-04-15 9:36 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-15 9:53 ` David Laight
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 16/17] get rid of the size argument of sock_sendmsg() Al Viro
2015-04-14 16:25 ` David Laight
2015-04-14 16:35 ` Al Viro
2015-04-14 16:44 ` Al Viro
2015-04-14 17:55 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-04-15 8:37 ` David Laight
2015-04-15 10:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-15 16:06 ` David Miller
2015-04-11 21:18 ` [PATCH 17/17] new helper: msg_data_left() Al Viro
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