netdev - Re: [PATCH] bpf: tcp_bpf_recvmsg should return EAGAIN when nonblocking and no data

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:13:19 -0700
From:   Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: tcp_bpf_recvmsg should return EAGAIN when
 nonblocking and no data

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/29/2018 12:31 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> > We return 0 in the case of a nonblocking socket that has no data
> > available. However, this is incorrect and may confuse applications.
> > After this patch we do the correct thing and return the error
> > EAGAIN.
> >
> > Quoting return codes from recvmsg manpage,
> >
> > EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK
> >  The socket is marked nonblocking and the receive operation would
> >  block, or a receive timeout had been set and the timeout expired
> >  before data was received.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>

> > ---
>
> Add fixes tag.
>
> Fixes: 604326b41a6f ("bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface")
>
>
>
>