[PATCH RESEND 1/6] sock: add sock_kzalloc helper
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-05-27 08:26:07
Also in:
linux-crypto, lkml
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [sockets], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds
Add sock_kzalloc() helper - the sock equivalent to kzalloc(). Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> --- Patch 1/6 needs an Acked-by: from netdev maintainers for the series to go through Herbert's crypto tree: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ahVkZOxZtFes6Huf@gondor.apana.org.au/ (local) --- include/net/sock.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 76bfd3e56d63..b521bd34ac9f 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h@@ -1913,6 +1913,11 @@ void sock_kfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size); void sock_kzfree_s(struct sock *sk, void *mem, int size); void sk_send_sigurg(struct sock *sk); +static inline void *sock_kzalloc(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t priority) +{ + return sock_kmalloc(sk, size, priority | __GFP_ZERO); +} + static inline void sock_replace_proto(struct sock *sk, struct proto *proto) { if (sk->sk_socket)