netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: set FMODE

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Message-ID: <9e16ad625a6ba27c2e491d147dbed2c22a8b378b.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 10:03:40 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, io-uring@...r.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: set FMODE_NOWAIT for sockets

On Tue, 2023-05-09 at 09:19 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> The socket read/write functions deal with O_NONBLOCK and IOCB_NOWAIT
> just fine, so we can flag them as being FMODE_NOWAIT compliant. With
> this, we can remove socket special casing in io_uring when checking
> if a file type is sane for nonblocking IO, and it's also the defined
> way to flag file types as such in the kernel.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> ---
>  net/socket.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
> index a7b4b37d86df..6861dbbfadb6 100644
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ struct file *sock_alloc_file(struct socket *sock, int flags, const char *dname)
>  		return file;
>  	}
>  
> +	file->f_mode |= FMODE_NOWAIT;
>  	sock->file = file;
>  	file->private_data = sock;
>  	stream_open(SOCK_INODE(sock), file);

The patch looks sane to me:

Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

I understand the intention is merging patch via the io_uring tree? If
so, no objections on my side: hopefully it should not cause any
conflicts with the netdev tree.

Thanks,

Paolo