Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: Remove support for AIO on sockets

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.kernel.vger.linux-crypto,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users,org.kernel.vger.netdev
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On Sat, 23 May 2026 15:43:02 -0400 Demi Marie Obenour via B4 Relay
wrote:
> The only user of msg->msg_iocb was AF_ALG, but that's deprecated.
> It can be removed entirely at the cost of only supporting synchronous
> operations.  This doesn't break userspace, which will silently block
> (for a bounded amount of time) in io_submit instead of operating
> asynchronously.
> 
> This also makes struct msghdr smaller, helping every other caller of
> sendmsg().

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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