linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] sock, cgroup: add sock->sk

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:48:46 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	pablo@...filter.org, kaber@...sh.net, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
	lizefan@...wei.com, hannes@...xchg.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...com, daniel.wagner@...-carit.de,
	nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] sock, cgroup: add sock->sk_cgroup

On 11/17/2015 10:31 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, David.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:25:54PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>>> In preparation, this patch adds sock->sk_cgroup which points to the
>>> associated cgroup.  A sock is associated on creation and stays
>>> associated to the same cgroup until freed; unfortunately, this ends up
>>> adding another cgroup field to struct sock on top of sk_cgrp_prioidx
>>> and sk_classid.  I tried to think of a way to somehow overload the
>>> existing fields but couldn't come up with a reasonable one.
>>
>> sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx is simply sk->sk_cgroup->id, is it not?
>
> Unfortunately, sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx is an arbitrary value which can be
> configured through "net_cls.classid".  :(

Hmm, isn't net_prio independent of net_cls?

>> We really need to consolidate this before we stuff even more members
>> into the socket for control group support, sorry.
>
> Yeah, it is messy.  I'll see if I can come up with a non-crazy way to
> combine the other two fields with ->sk_cgroup.
>
> Thanks.
>

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