Re: [net-ipv4] question about arguments position

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 15:16:01 EST



Quoting Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 14:00 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
Regarding the code comments, what about the following patch:
[]
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
[]
@@ -389,6 +389,12 @@ static int sk_diag_fill(struct sock *sk, struct
sk_buff *skb,
nlmsg_flags, unlh, net_admin);
}

+/*
+ * Ignore the position of the arguments req->id.idiag_dport and
+ * req->id.idiag_sport in both calls to inet_lookup() and inet6_lookup()
+ * functions, once this is a locked in behavior exposed to user space.
+ * Changing this will break things for people.
+ */
struct sock *inet_diag_find_one_icsk(struct net *net,
struct inet_hashinfo *hashinfo,
const struct inet_diag_req_v2 *req)


Seems sensible. Thanks.

Should I resend it in a full and proper format or it can taken from here?

Thanks
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Gustavo A. R. Silva