Re: [PATCH net v2] net/socket: remove unused do_sock_{set,get}sockopt() exports
Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:28:32 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote: > do_sock_setsockopt() and do_sock_getsockopt() have been exported since > they were split out of the syscall handlers for io_uring to reuse. > > io_uring is the only caller outside net/socket.c, and it is never > modular: cmd_net.o is built under obj-$(CONFIG_NET), and both CONFIG_NET > and CONFIG_IO_URING are bool. The declarations in <net/sock.h> are all > it needs, so no module has ever been able to use these exports. FTR I'd prefer this export (or something along these lines) to having to add individual helpers for every sockopt for in-kernel networking socket users. Maybe other maintainers disagree.