netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v2] libbpf: Remove getsockopt() check for XDP

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:31:19 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2] libbpf: Remove getsockopt() check for XDP_OPTIONS

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 02:33:42PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> The xsk_socket__create() function fails and returns an error if it cannot
> get the XDP_OPTIONS through getsockopt(). However, support for XDP_OPTIONS
> was not added until kernel 5.3, so this means that creating XSK sockets
> always fails on older kernels.
> 
> Since the option is just used to set the zero-copy flag in the xsk struct,
> and that flag is not really used for anything yet, just remove the
> getsockopt() call until a proper use for it is introduced.
> 
> Suggested-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks!