From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: net: Remove iocb argument from sendmsg and recvmsg Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:06:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150311.000659.1763019676805929532.davem@davemloft.net> References: <54FFAA5B.3080608@intel.com> <54FFB3E9.50905@windriver.com> <54FFB5A9.5030008@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ying.xue@windriver.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hch@lst.de, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: tadeusz.struk@intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54FFB5A9.5030008@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org From: Tadeusz Struk Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:25:29 -0700 > In my opinion this is not about a single, special case, but rather > about being able to support asynchronous operations on socket > interface. Nobody used the socket AIO facility for two decades, it just rotted and turned out to be buggy and reference freed stack memory on top of that. I am absolutely not convinced this is the only way to solve your problem.