From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tadeusz Struk Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:39:06 -0700 Message-ID: <54FFC6EA.6080800@intel.com> References: <54FFAA5B.3080608@intel.com> <54FFB3E9.50905@windriver.com> <54FFB5A9.5030008@intel.com> <20150311.000659.1763019676805929532.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ying.xue@windriver.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hch@lst.de, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:57043 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbbCKEli (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:41:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150311.000659.1763019676805929532.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/10/2015 09:06 PM, David Miller wrote: >> In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather >> > about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket >> > interface. > Nobody used the socket AIO facility for two decades, it just > rotted and turned out to be buggy and reference freed stack > memory on top of that. > > I am absolutely not convinced this is the only way to solve your > problem. Do you have any suggestion?