netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] NetLabel: consolidate the struct socket/sock handling to just struct sock

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:37:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	paul.moore@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NetLabel: consolidate the struct socket/sock
 handling to just struct sock

From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:18:26 -0400 (EDT)

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> > The current NetLabel code has some redundant APIs which allow both
> > "struct socket" and "struct sock" types to be used; this may have made sense at
> > some point but it is wasteful now.  Remove the functions that operate on
> > sockets and convert the callers.  Not only does this make the code smaller and
> > more consistent but it pushes the locking burden up to the caller which can be
> > more intelligent about the locks.  Also, perform the same conversion (socket
> > to sock) on the SELinux/NetLabel glue code where it make sense.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
> 
> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

Applied.
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