netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/sock: allow the user to set negative peek offset

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Message-ID: <CAF=yD-+GfJLTj=O4w_eAheO-kzOuuUanaQNEsSZ=rRqcnvmbjg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:01:59 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Matthew Dawson <matthew@...systems.ca>,
        Sam Kumar <samanthakumar@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sock: allow the user to set negative peek offset

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> This is necessary to allow the user to disable peeking with
> offset once it's enabled.
> Unix sockets already allow the above, with this patch we
> permit it for udp[6] sockets, too.
>
> Fixes: 627d2d6b5500 ("udp: enable MSG_PEEK at non-zero offset")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

I don't think that the existing behavior is buggy, per se. So this
could also go to net-next.