netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock

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Message-Id: <20220805062844.89787-1-yin31149@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri,  5 Aug 2022 14:28:44 +0800
From:   Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 at 23:29, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu,  4 Aug 2022 11:05:15 +0800 Hawkins Jiawei wrote:
> > I wonder if it is proper to gather these together in a patchset, for
> > they are all about flags in sk_user_data, maybe:
> >
> > [PATCH v5 0/2] net: enhancement to flags in sk_user_data field
> >       - introduce the patchset
> >
> > [PATCH v5 1/2] net: clean up code for flags in sk_user_data field
> >       - refactor the things in include/linux/skmsg.h and
> > include/net/sock.h
> >       - refactor the flags's usage by other code, such as
> > net/core/skmsg.c and kernel/bpf/reuseport_array.c
> >
> > [PATCH v5 2/2] net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2)
> >       - add SK_USER_DATA_PSOCK flag in sk_user_data field
>
> Usually the fix comes first, because it needs to be backported to
> stable, and we don't want to have to pull extra commits into stable
> and risk regressions in code which was not directly involved in the bug.
Ok, I got it. Thanks for the explanation.