netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET : cleanup sock_from

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Date:	Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:00:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : cleanup sock_from_file()

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:03:25 +0100

> I believe dead code from sock_from_file() can be cleaned up.
> 
> All sockets are now built using sock_attach_fd(), that puts the 'sock' pointer 
> into file->private_data and &socket_file_ops into file->f_op
> 
> I could not find a place where file->private_data could be set to NULL, 
> keeping opened the file.
> 
> So to get 'sock' from a 'file' pointer, either :
> 
> - This is a socket file (f_op == &socket_file_ops), and we can directly get 
> 'sock' from private_data.
> - This is not a socket, we return -ENOTSOCK and dont even try to find a socket 
> via dentry/inode :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Looks good to me, applied, thanks Eric.
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