netdev - RE: [PATCH 13/26] bpfilter: switch bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt to sockptr

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Message-ID: <621e193e4af74d8198ed87d6a9ce8260@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:16:16 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@....de>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 13/26] bpfilter: switch bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt to
 sockptr_t

From: Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: 23 July 2020 07:09
> 
> This is mostly to prepare for cleaning up the callers, as bpfilter by
> design can't handle kernel pointers.

You've failed to fix the sense of the above...

	David

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