netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 7/8] sctp: Use sctp_clone_sock() in sctp_do

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Message-ID: <CADvbK_cBbHfXyKe9=_+BH0VB-c73hRsNG0Jiitvh+48Y3_ydUA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:26:09 -0400
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 7/8] sctp: Use sctp_clone_sock() in sctp_do_peeloff().

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> sctp_do_peeloff() calls sock_create() to allocate and initialise
> struct sock, inet_sock, and sctp_sock, but later sctp_copy_sock()
> and sctp_sock_migrate() overwrite most fields.
>
> What sctp_do_peeloff() does is more like accept().
>
> Let's use sock_create_lite() and sctp_clone_sock().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>