From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Rao Shoaib <Rao.Shoaib@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
matthew.wilcox@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next af_unix v1 1/1] net:af_unix: Allow unix sockets to raise SIGURG
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 17:55:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKPxm8+8Wz5mTPba@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518074343.980438-1-Rao.Shoaib@oracle.com>
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:43:43AM -0700, Rao Shoaib wrote:
> From: Rao Shoaib <rao.shoaib@oracle.com>
>
> TCP sockets allow SIGURG to be sent to the process holding the other
> end of the socket. Extend Unix sockets to have the same ability.
>
> The API is the same in that the sender uses sendmsg() with MSG_OOB to
> raise SIGURG. Unix sockets behave in the same way as TCP sockets with
> SO_OOBINLINE set.
>
> SIGURG is ignored by default, so applications which do not know about this
> feature will be unaffected. In addition to installing a SIGURG handler,
> the receiving application must call F_SETOWN or F_SETOWN_EX to indicate
> which process or thread should receive the signal.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rao Shoaib <rao.shoaib@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.wilcox@oracle.com>
Please don't forge my Signed-off-by. With that line deleted,
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> ---
> net/unix/af_unix.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> index 5a31307ceb76..c8400c002882 100644
> --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> @@ -1838,8 +1838,6 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
> return err;
>
> err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> - if (msg->msg_flags&MSG_OOB)
> - goto out_err;
>
> if (msg->msg_namelen) {
> err = sk->sk_state == TCP_ESTABLISHED ? -EISCONN : -EOPNOTSUPP;
> @@ -1904,6 +1902,9 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
> sent += size;
> }
>
> + if (msg->msg_flags & MSG_OOB)
> + sk_send_sigurg(other);
> +
> scm_destroy(&scm);
>
> return sent;
> --
> 2.31.1
>
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