Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] net: Add distinct sk_psock field

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On 4/18/22 18:49, Chuck Lever wrote:
The sk_psock facility populates the sk_user_data field with the
address of an extra bit of metadata. User space sockets never
populate the sk_user_data field, so this has worked out fine.

However, kernel consumers such as the RPC client and server do
populate the sk_user_data field. The sk_psock() function cannot tell
that the content of sk_user_data does not point to psock metadata,
so it will happily return a pointer to something else, cast to a
struct sk_psock.

Thus kernel consumers and psock currently cannot co-exist.

We could educate sk_psock() to return NULL if sk_user_data does
not point to a struct sk_psock. However, a more general solution
that enables full co-existence psock and other uses of sk_user_data
might be more interesting.

Move the struct sk_psock address to its own pointer field so that
the contents of the sk_user_data field is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/linux/skmsg.h |    2 +-
  include/net/sock.h    |    4 +++-
  net/core/skmsg.c      |    6 +++---
  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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