Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ping: dont call udp_ioctl()

[David Miller]

From: Solar Designer <solar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 01:30:18 +0400

> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:18:40AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Do we really need to support SIOCOUTQ and SIOCINQ ioctls for ping
>> sockets ?
> 
> Probably not.
> 
>> BTW, link
>> (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/openwall/Owl/current/sources/Owl/packages/iputils/iputils-ss020927.tar.gz ) provided in http://openwall.info/wiki/people/segoon/ping is not working.
>> 
>> I had to manually patch iputils-s20101006.tar.bz2 instead.
> 
> Oh, the link broke precisely because we updated to s20101006 since then,
> and the link was to our current branch.  I've just updated the wiki page
> to include links both for iputils-ss020927 and for iputils-s20101006
> (both original tarballs and patches).
> 
>> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ping: dont call udp_ioctl()
>> 
>> udp_ioctl() really handles UDP and UDPLite protocols.
>> 
>> 1) It can increment UDP_MIB_INERRORS in case first_packet_length() finds
>> a frame with bad checksum.
>> 
>> 2) It has a dependency on sizeof(struct udphdr), not applicable to
>> ICMP/PING
>> 
>> If ping sockets need to handle SIOCINQ/SIOCOUTQ ioctl, this should be
>> done differently.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Solar Designer <solar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just get rid of ping_ioctl() entirely, as that is the effect of
this change since inet_ioctl() returns -ENOIOCTLCMD when
sk_prot->ioctl is NULL.

Also get rid of asm/ioctls.h since that will be no longer needed.

Thanks.
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