On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:31:56PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > * SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO handling in compat [sg]etsockopt() > * passing SIOC{ADD,DEL}TUNNEL down (ipmr_del_tunnel(),ipmr_new_tunnel(), > addrconf_set_dstaddr()) > * SIOCGSTAMP/SIOCGSTAMPNS in compat ioctls > * SIOCADDRT/SIOCDELRT in compat ioctls > * kernel_[gs]etsockopt() > * ipv6_renew_options_kern() > > I don't know if all of that stuff can be realistically done without set_fs(). > kernel_setsockopt(), in particular, is unpleasant... Speaking of weird indirect calls: in net/packet/af_packet.c:packet_ioctl() we have this: #ifdef CONFIG_INET case SIOCADDRT: case SIOCDELRT: case SIOCDARP: case SIOCGARP: case SIOCSARP: case SIOCGIFADDR: case SIOCSIFADDR: case SIOCGIFBRDADDR: case SIOCSIFBRDADDR: case SIOCGIFNETMASK: case SIOCSIFNETMASK: case SIOCGIFDSTADDR: case SIOCSIFDSTADDR: case SIOCSIFFLAGS: return inet_dgram_ops.ioctl(sock, cmd, arg); #endif That's inet_ioctl(sock, cmd, arg) disguised by indirect. AFAICS, that line dates back to 2.1.89; back then inet_dgram_ops had been exported and inet_ioctl() had been static. When SCTP went in they'd exported inet_ioctl() rather than playing that kind of games. Is there anything subtle I'm missing here that would make it wrong to replace that with explicit call of inet_ioctl()?