Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] rxrpc: Preparation for removal of use of skbs from AFS

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Aug 31 2016 - 01:09:26 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:41:37 +0100

> Here's a set of patches that prepare the way for the removal of the use of
> sk_buffs from fs/afs (they'll be entirely retained within net/rxrpc):
>
> (1) Fix a potential NULL-pointer deref in rxrpc_abort_calls().
>
> (2) Condense all the terminal call state machine states to a single one
> plus supplementary info.
>
> (3) Add a trace point for rxrpc call usage debugging.
>
> (4) Cleanups and missing headers.
>
> (5) Provide a way for AFS to ask about a call's peer address without
> having an sk_buff to query.
>
> (6) Use call->peer directly rather than going via call->conn (which might
> be NULL).
>
> (7) Pass struct socket * to various rxrpc kernel interface functions so
> they can use that directly rather than getting it from the rxrpc_call
> struct.
...
> Tagged thusly:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-rewrite-20160830-1

Pulled, thanks David.