Re: [PATCH 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 12:41:30PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> > Add sock_kzalloc() helper - the sock equivalent to kzalloc().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/net/sock.h | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> > index dccd3738c368..20bf406dff2d 100644
> > --- a/include/net/sock.h
> > +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> > @@ -1904,6 +1904,11 @@ void sock_kfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size);
> >  void sock_kzfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size);
> >  void sk_send_sigurg(struct sock *sk);
> >  
> > +static inline void *sock_kzalloc(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t priority)
> > +{
> > +	return sock_kmalloc(sk, size, priority | __GFP_ZERO);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static inline void sock_replace_proto(struct sock *sk, struct proto *proto)
> >  {
> >  	if (sk->sk_socket)
> 
> Can you take this series or should I resend this to net-next?

This patch needs an ack from the netdev maintainers.

Thanks,
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