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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/26] net: add a new sockptr_t type
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:40:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89iJ3LKth-iWwh0+P3D3RqtDNv4AyXkkzhXr0oSEvE_JoRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200723060908.50081-5-hch@lst.de>

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:09 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> Add a uptr_t type that can hold a pointer to either a user or kernel
> memory region, and simply helpers to copy to and from it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/sockptr.h | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 104 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/sockptr.h
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sockptr.h b/include/linux/sockptr.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000000..700856e13ea0c4
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/sockptr.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 2020 Christoph Hellwig.
> + *
> + * Support for "universal" pointers that can point to either kernel or userspace
> + * memory.
> + */
> +#ifndef _LINUX_SOCKPTR_H
> +#define _LINUX_SOCKPTR_H
> +
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +
> +typedef struct {
> +       union {
> +               void            *kernel;
> +               void __user     *user;
> +       };
> +       bool            is_kernel : 1;
> +} sockptr_t;
>

I am not sure why you chose sockptr_t   for something that really seems generic.

Or is it really meant to be exclusive to setsockopt() and/or getsockopt() ?

If the first user of this had been futex code, we would have used
futexptr_t, I guess.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23  6:08 get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 01/26] bpfilter: fix up a sparse annotation Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:14   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 02/26] net/bpfilter: split __bpfilter_process_sockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 03/26] bpfilter: reject kernel addresses Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 14:42   ` David Laight
2020-07-23 14:44     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23 14:56       ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 04/26] net: add a new sockptr_t type Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 15:40   ` Jan Engelhardt
2020-07-23 16:40   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2020-07-23 16:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 05/26] net: switch copy_bpf_fprog_from_user to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 06/26] net: switch sock_setbindtodevice " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 07/26] net: switch sock_set_timeout " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 08/26] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  8:39   ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 09/26] net/xfrm: switch xfrm_user_policy " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 10/26] netfilter: remove the unused user argument to do_update_counters Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 11/26] netfilter: switch xt_copy_counters to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 12/26] netfilter: switch nf_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 15:03   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 15:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:16       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28  8:07           ` David Laight
2020-07-28  8:17             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:21       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 13/26] bpfilter: switch bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:16   ` David Laight
2020-07-23 11:44     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 14/26] net/ipv4: switch ip_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 15/26] net/ipv4: merge ip_options_get and ip_options_get_from_user Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 16/26] net/ipv4: switch do_ip_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 17/26] net/ipv6: switch ip6_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 18/26] net/ipv6: split up ipv6_flowlabel_opt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 19/26] net/ipv6: switch ipv6_flowlabel_opt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 12:15   ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 13:33       ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 16:15         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 18:22           ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:24     ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 20/26] net/ipv6: factor out a ipv6_set_opt_hdr helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 21/26] net/ipv6: switch do_ipv6_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 22/26] net/udp: switch udp_lib_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 23/26] net/tcp: switch ->md5_parse " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 24/26] net/tcp: switch do_tcp_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 25/26] net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  8:39   ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-08-06 22:21   ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-07  7:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-07  9:18     ` David Laight
2020-08-07 18:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-08 13:54         ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 26/26] net: optimize the sockptr_t for unified kernel/user address spaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-24 22:43 ` get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 David Miller
2020-07-26  7:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-26  7:08     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-26  7:46     ` David Miller
2020-07-27  9:51   ` David Laight
2020-07-27 13:48     ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 14:09       ` David Laight

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