Re: get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt
Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:56 AM Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:47:56PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > > a kernel pointer. This is something that works for most common sockopts > > > (and is something that the ePBF support relies on), but unfortunately > > > in various corner cases we either don't use the passed in length, or in > > > one case actually copy data back from setsockopt, so we unfortunately > > > can't just always do the copy in the highlevel code, which would have > > > been much nicer. > > > > could you rebase on bpf-next tree and we can route it this way then? > > we'll also test the whole thing before applying. > > The bpf-next tree is missing all my previous setsockopt cleanups, so > there series won't apply. Right. I've realized that after sending that email two days ago. Now bpf-next->net-next PR is pending and as soon as it's merged bpf-next will have all the recent bits.