Hello!
> The protocol specific code would like to look at what
> the user passed.
For what purpose?
Protocol has no rights to use this length, because user has right
to pass buffer of any length and address will be simply truncated.
And the truncation is made by net/socket.c, so that protocols need
not worry about this.
Alexey
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