netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 02/11] bpf: Add sockptr support for setsockopt

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:32:31 -0700
From: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org, sdf@...gle.com,
 axboe@...nel.dk, asml.silence@...il.com, willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, krisman@...e.de,
 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
 Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>,
 John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
 Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/11] bpf: Add sockptr support for setsockopt

On 10/16/23 6:47 AM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> The whole network stack uses sockptr, and while it doesn't move to
> something more modern, let's use sockptr in setsockptr BPF hooks, so, it
> could be used by other callers.
> 
> The main motivation for this change is to use it in the io_uring
> {g,s}etsockopt(), which will use a userspace pointer for *optval, but, a
> kernel value for optlen.

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...nel.org>