netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 5/6] socket: Replace most sock_create() calls with sock_create

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Message-ID: <f8640da1-c442-4704-8f0a-8d498e1b7e16@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:11:20 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
 Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
 "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
 linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
 Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Stefano Stabellini
 <sstabellini@...nel.org>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
 Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
 ocfs2-devel@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 5/6] socket: Replace most sock_create() calls
 with sock_create_kern().

On 5/17/25 5:50 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> Except for only one user, sctp_do_peeloff(), all sockets created
> by drivers and fs are not tied to userspace processes nor exposed
> via file descriptors.
> 
> Let's use sock_create_kern() for such in-kernel use cases as CIFS
> client and NFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

The change makes sense to me, but it has a semantic change, let's add
more CCs.

Link to the full series:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250517035120.55560-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/

/P