netdev - Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:09:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tom@...bertland.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	zenczykowski@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com, ek@...gle.com, dtor@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:38:37 -0800

> 1) We need transparency. If a third party kills a TCP connection then
> the application should be informed of specifically that. This seems
> easy enough to just pick an appropriate error number as I suggested.

Agreed.

> 2) We need constraints. This feature seems to be specific to a very
> narrow use case. It is not at all clear to me if there are any
> legitimate uses cases beyond Android, enabling this by default in the
> stack creates a non-zero amount of risk and liability for abuse. It
> seems like this should be an opt-in sort of feature, with a kernel
> CONFIG or maybe opt-in per socket.

And this will probably be the point of contention.
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