Re: [PATCH net v2] net/socket: remove unused do_sock_{set,get}sockopt() exports

[Breno Leitao]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 12:39:57PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:28:32 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote:
> > do_sock_setsockopt() and do_sock_getsockopt() have been exported since
> > they were split out of the syscall handlers for io_uring to reuse.
> > 
> > io_uring is the only caller outside net/socket.c, and it is never
> > modular: cmd_net.o is built under obj-$(CONFIG_NET), and both CONFIG_NET
> > and CONFIG_IO_URING are bool. The declarations in <net/sock.h> are all
> > it needs, so no module has ever been able to use these exports.
> 
> FTR I'd prefer this export (or something along these lines) to having 
> to add individual helpers for every sockopt for in-kernel networking
> socket users. Maybe other maintainers disagree.

Fair — you and Christoph disagree here, and the nvme-tcp series needs it
modular.

I'll park this until that settles. If we decide to keep it, I would
suggest we change it to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, at least.

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