Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] net: ping: dont call udp_ioctl()

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 08:48:40 EST


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:26 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 17:44 -0400, David Miller a écrit :
>
> > Just get rid of ping_ioctl() entirely, as that is the effect of
> > this change since inet_ioctl() returns -ENOIOCTLCMD when
> > sk_prot->ioctl is NULL.
> >
> > Also get rid of asm/ioctls.h since that will be no longer needed.
>
> Sure, here is updated version, thanks.
>
> [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] net: ping: dont call udp_ioctl()
>
> udp_ioctl() really handles UDP and UDPLite protocols.
>
> 1) It can increment UDP_MIB_INERRORS in case first_packet_length() finds
> a frame with bad checksum.
>
> 2) It has a dependency on sizeof(struct udphdr), not applicable to
> ICMP/PING
>
> If ping sockets need to handle SIOCINQ/SIOCOUTQ ioctl, this should be
> done differently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

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