On 06/30, Breno Leitao wrote: > Add a helper that initializes a user-backed sockopt_t from the (optval, > optlen) __user pair passed to a getsockopt() callback. > > It is used by transitional __user getsockopt wrappers while the > proto-layer getsockopt callbacks are converted to take a sockopt_t, and > is removed once the conversion is complete. > > The goal is to help to convert leafs. Example: > > sock_common_getsockopt(... char __user *optval, int __user *optlen) > → udp_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval__user, optlen__user) > → udp_lib_getsockopt(sk, level, optname, &opt) /* needs a > sockopt_t */ > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[email protected]>
