From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
metze@samba.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next RFC 3/3] netlink: convert to getsockopt_iter
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:46:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260130-getsockopt-v1-3-9154fcff6f95@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260130-getsockopt-v1-0-9154fcff6f95@debian.org>
Convert netlink's getsockopt implementation to use the new
getsockopt_iter callback with sockopt_t.
Key changes:
- Replace (char __user *optval, int __user *optlen) with sockopt_t *opt
- Use opt->optlen for buffer length (input) and returned size (output)
- Use copy_to_iter() instead of put_user()/copy_to_user()
The optlen field allows callbacks to return a specific length value
independent of the bytes written via copy_to_iter().
This enables io_uring to call netlink's getsockopt with kernel buffers.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 8e5151f0c6e46..8a195eb1ef761 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
@@ -1716,7 +1717,7 @@ static int netlink_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
}
static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
- char __user *optval, int __user *optlen)
+ sockopt_t *opt)
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
@@ -1726,8 +1727,7 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
if (level != SOL_NETLINK)
return -ENOPROTOOPT;
- if (get_user(len, optlen))
- return -EFAULT;
+ len = opt->optlen;
if (len < 0)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1743,6 +1743,8 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
break;
case NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS: {
int pos, idx, shift, err = 0;
+ u32 group_val;
+ size_t size;
netlink_lock_table();
for (pos = 0; pos * 8 < nlk->ngroups; pos += sizeof(u32)) {
@@ -1751,14 +1753,14 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
idx = pos / sizeof(unsigned long);
shift = (pos % sizeof(unsigned long)) * 8;
- if (put_user((u32)(nlk->groups[idx] >> shift),
- (u32 __user *)(optval + pos))) {
+ group_val = (u32)(nlk->groups[idx] >> shift);
+ size = copy_to_iter(&group_val, sizeof(group_val), &opt->iter);
+ if (size != sizeof(group_val)) {
err = -EFAULT;
break;
}
}
- if (put_user(ALIGN(BITS_TO_BYTES(nlk->ngroups), sizeof(u32)), optlen))
- err = -EFAULT;
+ opt->optlen = ALIGN(BITS_TO_BYTES(nlk->ngroups), sizeof(u32));
netlink_unlock_table();
return err;
}
@@ -1784,10 +1786,10 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
len = sizeof(int);
val = test_bit(flag, &nlk->flags);
- if (put_user(len, optlen) ||
- copy_to_user(optval, &val, len))
+ if (copy_to_iter(&val, len, &opt->iter) != len)
return -EFAULT;
+ opt->optlen = sizeof(int);
return 0;
}
@@ -2813,7 +2815,7 @@ static const struct proto_ops netlink_ops = {
.listen = sock_no_listen,
.shutdown = sock_no_shutdown,
.setsockopt = netlink_setsockopt,
- .getsockopt = netlink_getsockopt,
+ .getsockopt_iter = netlink_getsockopt,
.sendmsg = netlink_sendmsg,
.recvmsg = netlink_recvmsg,
.mmap = sock_no_mmap,
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-30 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-30 18:46 [PATCH net-next RFC 0/3] net: move .getsockopt away from __user buffers Breno Leitao
2026-01-30 18:46 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 1/3] net: add getsockopt_iter callback to proto_ops Breno Leitao
2026-01-30 18:46 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 2/3] net: prefer getsockopt_iter in do_sock_getsockopt Breno Leitao
2026-01-30 18:46 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-01-30 20:52 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 0/3] net: move .getsockopt away from __user buffers David Laight
2026-01-31 1:19 ` Linus Torvalds
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