Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: socket: add the case sock_no_xxx support

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:53:59 +0000

September 18, 2021 9:33 AM, "Jakub Kicinski" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:29:43 +0800 Yajun Deng wrote:
> 
>> Those sock_no_{mmap, socketpair, listen, accept, connect, shutdown,
>> sendpage} functions are used many times in struct proto_ops, but they are
>> meaningless. So we can add them support in socket and delete them in struct
>> proto_ops.
> 
> So the reason to do this is.. what exactly?
> 
> Removing a couple empty helpers (which is not even part of this patch)?
> 
> I'm not sold, sorry.

When we define a struct proto_ops xxx, we only need to assign meaningful member variables that we need.
Those {mmap, socketpair, listen, accept, connect, shutdown, sendpage} members we don't need assign
it if we don't need. We just need do once in socket, not in every struct proto_ops.

These members are assigned meaningless values far more often than meaningful ones, so this patch I used likely(!!sock->ops->xxx) for this case. This is the reason why I send this patch.

I would send a set of patchs remove most of the meaningless members assigned rather than remove sock_no_{mmap, socketpair, listen, accept, connect, shutdown, sendpage} functions if this patch was accepted. 
e.g.  

diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 1d816a5fd3eb..86422eb440cb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1059,20 +1059,16 @@ const struct proto_ops inet_dgram_ops = {
        .release           = inet_release,
        .bind              = inet_bind,
        .connect           = inet_dgram_connect,
-       .socketpair        = sock_no_socketpair,
-       .accept            = sock_no_accept,

--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1059,20 +1059,16 @@ const struct proto_ops inet_dgram_ops = {
        .release           = inet_release,
        .bind              = inet_bind,
        .connect           = inet_dgram_connect,
-       .socketpair        = sock_no_socketpair,
-       .accept            = sock_no_accept,
        .getname           = inet_getname,

        .gettstamp         = sock_gettstamp,
-       .listen            = sock_no_listen,
        .shutdown          = inet_shutdown,
        .setsockopt        = sock_common_setsockopt,
        .getsockopt        = sock_common_getsockopt,
        .sendmsg           = inet_sendmsg,
        .read_sock         = udp_read_sock,
        .recvmsg           = inet_recvmsg,
-       .mmap              = sock_no_mmap,
        .sendpage          = inet_sendpage,
        .set_peek_off      = sk_set_peek_off,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
@@ -1091,19 +1087,15 @@ static const struct proto_ops inet_sockraw_ops = {
        .release           = inet_release,
        .bind              = inet_bind,
        .connect           = inet_dgram_connect,
-       .socketpair        = sock_no_socketpair,
-       .accept            = sock_no_accept,
        .getname           = inet_getname,
        .poll              = datagram_poll,
        .ioctl             = inet_ioctl,
        .gettstamp         = sock_gettstamp,
-       .listen            = sock_no_listen,
        .shutdown          = inet_shutdown,
        .setsockopt        = sock_common_setsockopt,
        .getsockopt        = sock_common_getsockopt,
        .sendmsg           = inet_sendmsg,
        .recvmsg           = inet_recvmsg,
-       .mmap              = sock_no_mmap,
        .sendpage          = inet_sendpage,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
        .compat_ioctl      = inet_compat_ioctl,