netdev - Re: Bug in short splice to socket?

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 21:20:43 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Willem de Bruijn
 <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chuck Lever
 <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>, John
 Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in short splice to socket?

On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:14:40 +0100 David Howells wrote:
> The answer then might be to make TLS handle a zero-length send()

IDK. Eric added MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST 11 years ago, to work around 
this exact problem. Your refactoring happens to break it and what
you're saying sounds to me more or less like "MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST 
is unnecessary, it's user's fault".

A bit unconvincing. Maybe Eric would chime in, I'm not too familiar
with the deadly mess of the unchecked sendmsg()/sendpage() flags.