netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] sctp: Add peeloff-flags socket option

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Date:   Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:26:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:     linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        vyasevich@...il.com, ast@...dv.de, marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sctp: Add peeloff-flags socket option

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:32:57 -0400

> Based on a request raised on the sctp devel list, there is a need to
> augment the sctp_peeloff operation while specifying the O_CLOEXEC and
> O_NONBLOCK flags (simmilar to the socket syscall).  Since modifying the
> SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF socket option would break user space ABI for existing
> programs, this patch creates a new socket option
> SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF_FLAGS, which accepts a third flags parameter to
> allow atomic assignment of the socket descriptor flags.
> 
> Tested successfully by myself and the requestor
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks Neil.