netdev - Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

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Message-Id: <20150311.000659.1763019676805929532.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:06:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tadeusz.struk@...el.com
Cc:	ying.xue@...driver.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, hch@....de,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg

From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:25:29 -0700

> In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather
> about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket
> interface.

Nobody used the socket AIO facility for two decades, it just
rotted and turned out to be buggy and reference freed stack
memory on top of that.

I am absolutely not convinced this is the only way to solve your
problem.
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