Re: [patch net-next v4 5/9] genetlink: introduce per-sock family private pointer storage

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 19:15 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
[...]
> +/**
> + * genl_sk_priv_store - Store per-socket private pointer for family
> + *
> + * @sk: socket
> + * @family: family
> + * @priv: private pointer
> + *
> + * Store a private pointer per-socket for a specified
> + * Generic netlink family.
> + *
> + * Caller has to make sure this is not called in parallel multiple times
> + * for the same sock and also in parallel to genl_release() for the same sock.
> + *
> + * Returns: previously stored private pointer for the family (could be NULL)
> + * on success, otherwise negative error value encoded by ERR_PTR().
> + */
> +void *genl_sk_priv_store(struct sock *sk, struct genl_family *family,
> +			 void *priv)
> +{
> +	struct genl_sk_ctx *ctx;
> +	void *old_priv;
> +
> +	ctx = rcu_dereference_raw(nlk_sk(sk)->priv);

Minor nit: Looking at the following patch, this will be called under
the rtnl lock. Since a look is needed to ensure the priv ptr
consistency, what about adding the relevant lockdep annotation here?

No need to repost for the above.

Cheers,

Paolo