From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A494CC433E2 for ; Thu, 21 May 2020 08:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9B1206B6 for ; Thu, 21 May 2020 08:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728488AbgEUIBj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2020 04:01:39 -0400 Received: from eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com ([207.82.80.151]:57278 "EHLO eu-smtp-delivery-151.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728117AbgEUIBi (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2020 04:01:38 -0400 Received: from AcuMS.aculab.com (156.67.243.126 [156.67.243.126]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id uk-mta-186-4FoxtkRnOIu_oKGM1EEfFg-1; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:01:34 +0100 X-MC-Unique: 4FoxtkRnOIu_oKGM1EEfFg-1 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:43c:695e:880f:8750) by AcuMS.aculab.com (fd9f:af1c:a25b:0:43c:695e:880f:8750) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1347.2; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:01:33 +0100 Received: from AcuMS.Aculab.com ([fe80::43c:695e:880f:8750]) by AcuMS.aculab.com ([fe80::43c:695e:880f:8750%12]) with mapi id 15.00.1347.000; Thu, 21 May 2020 09:01:33 +0100 From: David Laight To: 'Christoph Hellwig' , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski CC: Eric Dumazet , Alexey Kuznetsov , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , "Vlad Yasevich" , Neil Horman , "Marcelo Ricardo Leitner" , Jon Maloy , Ying Xue , "drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" , "target-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-afs@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org" , "cluster-devel@redhat.com" , "ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org" , "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "rds-devel@oss.oracle.com" , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" Subject: RE: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt v2 Thread-Topic: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt v2 Thread-Index: AQHWL0EWFDRlmpM/90uRt9jvD36P/KiyKtMA Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 08:01:33 +0000 Message-ID: <138a17dfff244c089b95f129e4ea2f66@AcuMS.aculab.com> References: <20200520195509.2215098-1-hch@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20200520195509.2215098-1-hch@lst.de> Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.202.205.107] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: aculab.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Hellwig > Sent: 20 May 2020 20:55 > > this series removes the kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt > functions, and instead switches their users to small functions that > implement setting (or in one case getting) a sockopt directly using > a normal kernel function call with type safety and all the other > benefits of not having a function call. > > In some cases these functions seem pretty heavy handed as they do > a lock_sock even for just setting a single variable, but this mirrors > the real setsockopt implementation unlike a few drivers that just set > set the fields directly. How much does this increase the kernel code by? You are also replicating a lot of code making it more difficult to maintain. I don't think the performance of an socket option code really matters - it is usually done once when a socket is initialised and the other costs of establishing a connection will dominate. Pulling the user copies outside the [gs]etsocksopt switch statement not only reduces the code size (source and object) and trivially allows kernel_[sg]sockopt() to me added to the list of socket calls. It probably isn't possible to pull the usercopies right out into the syscall wrapper because of some broken requests. I worried about whether getsockopt() should read the entire user buffer first. SCTP needs the some of it often (including a sockaddr_storage in one case), TCP needs it once. However the cost of reading a few words is small, and a big buffer probably needs setting to avoid leaking kernel memory if the structure has holes or fields that don't get set. Reading from userspace solves both issues. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)