Re: [PATCH] dlm, sctp: Do not allocate a fd for peeloff

[David Miller]

From: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:29:20 -0500

> On 03/07/2012 10:41 AM, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>> avoids allocating a fd that a) propagates to every kernel thread and
>> usermodehelper b) is not properly released.
>> 
>> References: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/22529
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxx>
> 
> It might make sense to change sctp_do_peeloff to take the association id as
> the first argument and not do the mapping from id to association yourself.
> It's a bit ugly to expose internal sctp structures outside of SCTP.

Agreed.
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