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Message-ID: <20231214192358.1b150fda@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:23:58 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v7 5/9] genetlink: introduce per-sock family
private storage
On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:15:45 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> - converted family->sock_priv_list to family->sock_privs xarray
> and use it to store the per-socket privs, use sock pointer as
> an xarrar index. This made the code much simpler
Nice!
FWIW I think I remember Willy saying that storing pointers in xarray is
comparatively inefficient / slow, but we can cross that bridge later.
> +void *__genl_sk_priv_get(struct genl_family *family, struct sock *sk)
> +{
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!family->sock_privs))
> + return NULL;
> + return xa_load(family->sock_privs, (unsigned long) sk);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * genl_sk_priv_get - Get family private pointer for socket
> + *
> + * @family: family
> + * @sk: socket
> + *
> + * Lookup a private memory for a Generic netlink family and specified socket.
> + * Allocate the private memory in case it was not already done.
> + *
> + * Return: valid pointer on success, otherwise negative error value
> + * encoded by ERR_PTR().
nit: probably better if __genl_sk_priv_get() returned an error pointer
if family is broken, save ourselves the bot-generated "fixes"..
> + */
> +void *genl_sk_priv_get(struct genl_family *family, struct sock *sk)
> +{
> + void *priv, *old_priv;
> +
> + priv = __genl_sk_priv_get(family, sk);
> + if (priv)
> + return priv;
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