netdev - Re: Re: [PATCH v7 02/12] file: Export receive

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Message-ID: <CACycT3uD-D78EXu+njGb5Wctb1qV4VzwyfcN1803x8SY65QSTA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 14:32:42 +0800
From:   Yongji Xie <xieyongji@...edance.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...tfour.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, joro@...tes.org,
        virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v7 02/12] file: Export receive_fd() to modules

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:18 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 05:55:03PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use
> > it to pass file descriptor between processes without
> > missing any security stuffs.
>
> Which tree is that against?  Because in mainline this won't even build, let
> alone work.
>

Oh, sorry for that. Now I'm based on vhost.git tree. But looks like I
miss Christoph's commit
42eb0d54c08 ("fs: split receive_fd_replace from __receive_fd"). Will
rebase on it in v8.

Thanks,
Yongji