Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] Deliver TLS control records to kernel read_sock consumers

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:43:12 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.kernel-tls-handshake,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.linux-nfs,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:27:54 -0400 Chuck Lever wrote:
> - The no-data cap (patch 1) is a prerequisite, not a stand-alone fix.
>   Once control records reach read_sock, a record carrying no payload
>   stops advancing the caller's read descriptor, so a peer streaming
>   such records would pin the socket lock and the kernel receive
>   context for as long as the flood lasts. Bounding consecutive
>   no-data records supplies the return boundary a system call would
>   otherwise provide. The cap is scoped to tls_sw_read_sock() alone:
>   splice and recvmsg run in the caller's own context, reschedule, and
>   drop the lock on return, so they need nothing.

Is it just me or this is incomprehensible slop? Run on sentences 
full of terms no kernel developer would use?