linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 07/17] vsock: read from socket's error queue

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Message-ID: <3ek3jnkp7iu6ypc6kq7iarx45bc4hkrmko4mtfqke6nvrjmsiu@mnvs66r2sejc>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:58:37 +0200
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@...rdevices.ru>
Cc:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@...edance.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...rdevices.ru, oxffffaa@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 07/17] vsock: read from socket's error queue

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 07:49:00AM +0300, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>
>
>On 26.06.2023 19:08, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 11:49:29PM +0300, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>>> This adds handling of MSG_ERRQUEUE input flag in receive call. This flag
>>> is used to read socket's error queue instead of data queue. Possible
>>> scenario of error queue usage is receiving completions for transmission
>>> with MSG_ZEROCOPY flag.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@...rdevices.ru>
>>> ---
>>> include/linux/socket.h   | 1 +
>>> net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 5 +++++
>>> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
>>> index bd1cc3238851..d79efd026880 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/socket.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/socket.h
>>> @@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ struct ucred {
>>> #define SOL_MPTCP    284
>>> #define SOL_MCTP    285
>>> #define SOL_SMC        286
>>> +#define SOL_VSOCK    287
>>
>> Maybe this change should go in another patch where we describe that
>> we need to support setsockopt()
>
>Ok, You mean patch which handles SO_ZEROCOPY option in af_vsock.c as Bobby suggested? No
>problem, but in this case there will be no user for this define there - this option
>(SO_ZEROCOPY) uses SOL_SOCKET level, not SOL_VSOCK.

Got it, so it is fine to leave it here.

Just mention that we are defining SOL_VSOCK in the commit description.

Thanks,
Stefano