[PATCH RESEND 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 04:26:32 EST
Add sock_kzalloc() helper - the sock equivalent to kzalloc().
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Patch 1/6 needs an Acked-by: from netdev maintainers for the series to
go through Herbert's crypto tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ahVkZOxZtFes6Huf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
---
include/net/sock.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 76bfd3e56d63..b521bd34ac9f 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1913,6 +1913,11 @@ 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)