netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] Fix inaccurate helper function description

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:55:42 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Chenbo Feng <chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mic@...ikod.net, Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Fix inaccurate helper function description

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 01:10:27PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 04/27/2017 01:41 AM, Chenbo Feng wrote:
> > From: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> > 
> > The description inside uapi/linux/bpf.h about bpf_get_socket_uid
> > helper function is no longer valid. It returns overflowuid rather
> > than 0 when failed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>
> 
> "bpf: " prefix in patch subject line would have been good.

+1

last time missing 'bpf:' prefix caused me headaches during backporting,
so please always use it.
Also please use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to make sure
maintainers cc-ed on patches.
gmail delivers netdev list emails to my mailbox with 10+ hour delay
for some reason.

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>