From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:57:49 +0200
> From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> > > When netlink_ack() reports an allocation error to the sending > socket, there's no need to look up the sending socket since > it's available in the SKB's CB. Use that instead of going to > the trouble of looking it up. > > Note that the pointer is only available since Eric Biederman's > commit 3fbc290540a1 ("netlink: Make the sending netlink socket availabe in > NETLINK_CB") > which is far newer than the original lookup code (Oct 2003) > (though the field was called 'ssk' in that commit and only got > renamed to 'sk' later, I'd actually argue 'ssk' was better - or > perhaps it should've been 'source_sk' - since there are so many > different 'sk's involved.) > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> Applied to net-next.
