Re: [PATCH bpf-next v6 1/5] net: Add connect_socket() helper

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 05:25:37PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > Add a helper that connects an existing socket while invoking the LSM
> > hook. Reuse it in __sys_connect_file() to avoid duplicating the connect
> > logic. Other socket operations have equivalent helpers that trigger the
> > appropriate LSM hooks that can be reused, this one was the only one
> > missing.
> 
> This isn't a bug, but could the changelog note which follow-up user needs
> connect_socket() to be global (rather than static in net/socket.c), so the
> new header declaration is justified within this patch?
> 
> The changelog motivates the helper only by the in-file reuse, but on its own
> that would not require a new global symbol: connect_socket() is declared in
> include/linux/socket.h while its single caller is 26 lines below it in
> net/socket.c. The actual consumer is the bpf_ksock_connect() kfunc added later
> in the series, which the message does not mention, so a reader of this patch
> alone cannot tell why the helper is not static.

Indeed if needed, this could be made more explicit. Currently it's
implied that one helper was missing "for the next patches".

> > Other socket operations have equivalent helpers that trigger the
> > appropriate LSM hooks that can be reused, this one was the only one
> > missing.

> 
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