netdev - Re: is it ok to always pull in sctp for dlm, was: Re: [PATCH 27/33] sctp: export sctp_setsockopt

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 09:24:03 -0500
From:   David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
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Subject: Re: is it ok to always pull in sctp for dlm, was: Re: [PATCH 27/33]
 sctp: export sctp_setsockopt_bindx

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:40:40PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:00:58PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:26:42AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > And call it directly from dlm instead of going through kernel_setsockopt.
> > 
> > The advantage on using kernel_setsockopt here is that sctp module will
> > only be loaded if dlm actually creates a SCTP socket.  With this
> > change, sctp will be loaded on setups that may not be actually using
> > it. It's a quite big module and might expose the system.
> > 
> > I'm okay with the SCTP changes, but I'll defer to DLM folks to whether
> > that's too bad or what for DLM.
> 
> So for ipv6 I could just move the helpers inline as they were trivial
> and avoid that issue.  But some of the sctp stuff really is way too
> big for that, so the only other option would be to use symbol_get.

Let's try symbol_get, having the sctp module always loaded caused problems
last time it happened (almost nobody uses dlm with it.)
Dave