From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
"Felipe Gasper" <felipe@felipegasper.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: Document UDIAG_SHOW_UID
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:37:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018173712.27670-14-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261018173712.27670-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
linux.git cae9910e7344 (2019-05-22; "net: Add UNIX_DIAG_UID to Netlink
UNIX socket diagnostics."), first released in Linux 5.3, added the
UDIAG_SHOW_UID flag and the UNIX_DIAG_UID attribute.
sk_diag_dump_uid() in net/unix/diag.c reports sk_uid(sk) as a uid_t,
mapped with from_kuid_munged() into the user namespace of the
requesting netlink socket.
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
This documents a missing sock_diag feature introduced in 2019.
The phrasing mirrors the phrasing of adjacent sections about other
features.
man/man7/sock_diag.7 | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man7/sock_diag.7 b/man/man7/sock_diag.7
index 9a2b54a67b30..c82b24fe1198 100644
--- a/man/man7/sock_diag.7
+++ b/man/man7/sock_diag.7
@@ -265,6 +265,16 @@ The attribute reported in answer to this request is
.BR UNIX_DIAG_MEMINFO .
The payload associated with this attribute is an array of __u32 values
described below in the subsection "Socket memory information".
+.TP
+.BR UDIAG_SHOW_UID " (since Linux 5.3)"
+.\" commit cae9910e73446cac68a54e3a7b02aaa12b689026
+The attribute reported in answer to this request is
+.BR UNIX_DIAG_UID .
+The payload associated with this attribute is a
+.I uid_t
+value which is the user ID of the owner of the socket,
+as seen from the user namespace of the netlink socket
+that is used for the query.
.P
The following attributes are reported back without any specific request:
.TP
--
2.56.0
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2026-10-18 17:36 [PATCH v2 00/24] Documentation fixes in unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EINVAL: The address field is sun_family, not sun_type Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] man/man7/unix.7: Socket options: SOL_SOCKET is a level, not a family Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PASSCRED: ffix Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: Fix member order of struct unix_diag_vfs Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: udiag_wqueue: This is memory in use, not memory available Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EPROTONOSUPPORT: Protocol 0 is also accepted Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: ETOOMANYREFS: Fix the conditions Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior " Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:36 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: udiag_states: Document TCP_CLOSE Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: UNIX_DIAG_NAME: The payload is not always a pathname Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] man/man7/unix.7: Several items of the same type may be sent in one message Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] man/man7/unix.7: Autobind: Fix when it happens, and mention SO_PASSPIDFD Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] man/man7/unix.7: SOCK_RAW is accepted as an alias for SOCK_DGRAM Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] man/man7/unix.7: SCM_SECURITY: This is not specific to SELinux Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PASSSEC: wfix Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] man/man7/unix.7: Abstract sockets are scoped to a network namespace Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] man/man7/unix.7: Remove mentions of unsupported out-of-band messaging Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] man/man7/unix.7: Document SO_PASSPIDFD, SO_PEERPIDFD, and SCM_PIDFD Günther Noack
2026-10-18 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] man/man7/unix.7: Document SO_PASSRIGHTS Günther Noack
2026-10-18 18:37 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] Documentation fixes in unix(7) Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-19 7:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-19 8:48 ` Günther Noack
2026-10-19 12:07 ` the meaning of "ffix" (was: [PATCH v2 00/24] Documentation fixes in unix(7)) G. Branden Robinson
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