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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CB33641@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 08:24:11 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"'Eric W. Biederman'" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
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	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/6] net: Add a struct net parameter to sock_create_kern

From: Eric W. Biederman
> Sent: 09 May 2015 03:08
>
> This is long overdue, and is part of cleaning up how we allocate kernel
> sockets that don't reference count struct net.
...
> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
> index b5f1f43ed8f4..9963a0b53a64 100644
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -1210,9 +1210,9 @@ int sock_create(int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_create);
> 
> -int sock_create_kern(int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res)
> +int sock_create_kern(struct net *net, int family, int type, int protocol, struct socket **res)
>  {
> -	return __sock_create(&init_net, family, type, protocol, res, 1);
> +	return __sock_create(net, family, type, protocol, res, 1);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_create_kern);

Wouldn't it involve far less churn to add a new function that uses a non-default
namespace?

Changing the function prototype will a PITA for anyone doing back-ports of fixes.
(And more so for anyone trying to get a driver to build against kernels
that might have this change back-ported.)

	David

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