Re: [PATCH 20/33] ipv4: add ip_sock_set_recverr

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 06:30:33 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:00:43PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 08:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Add a helper to directly set the IP_RECVERR sockopt from kernel space
> > without going through a fake uaccess.
>
> This seems used only with true as the second arg.
> Is there reason to have that argument at all?

Mostly to keep it symmetric with the sockopt. I could probably remove
a few arguments in the series if we want to be strict.