Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: Remove support for AIO on sockets

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 21:40:33 EST


On Sat, 23 May 2026 15:43:02 -0400 Demi Marie Obenour via B4 Relay
wrote:
> The only user of msg->msg_iocb was AF_ALG, but that's deprecated.
> It can be removed entirely at the cost of only supporting synchronous
> operations. This doesn't break userspace, which will silently block
> (for a bounded amount of time) in io_submit instead of operating
> asynchronously.
>
> This also makes struct msghdr smaller, helping every other caller of
> sendmsg().

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>