From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] apparently bogus logics in unix_find_other() since 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:19:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211031949.GA15980@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190210042414.GH2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 04:24:15AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Looks like that should be impossible; what am I missing here? Incidentally,
> how can the quoted fragment in in unix_stream_connect() be reached with NULL
> otheru->addr? After all, otheru is unix_sock of a listener; how could
> we possibly have found it if it had NULL ->addr?
>
> Confused...
BTW, speaking of interesting corner cases in AF_UNIX: am I right assuming that
identical abstract names with different protocols are considered entirely
independent? Where is that thing (== abstract namespace) documented, anyway?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-10 4:24 [RFC] apparently bogus logics in unix_find_other() since 2002 Al Viro
2019-02-11 3:19 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-02-11 11:21 ` Solar Designer
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