From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-man@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:21:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103202136.13574-3-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261103202136.13574-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets use unix_stream_connect() as their connect
operation (as defined in the ops structure unix_seqpacket_ops in
linux.git net/unix/af_unix.c). That function records the peer
credentials for both ends for later lookup.
unix_socketpair() records them for socket pairs of every type.
Connected SOCK_DGRAM sockets (unix_dgram_connect()) still don't record
peer credentials, so those remain excluded.
In the code, the function that initializes the peercred is
init_peercred()/update_peercred().
Fixes: 73b3a5686084 (2005-08-16; "Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.")
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Double checked in code.
The unix(7) SOCK_SEQPACKET socket type is also connection-oriented and
shares the "connect" logic with SOCK_STREAM sockets.
man/man7/unix.7 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man7/unix.7 b/man/man7/unix.7
index 1054d7f52a30..d0c1765dfd79 100644
--- a/man/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man/man7/unix.7
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ .SS Socket options
.IP
The use of this option is possible only for connected
.B AF_UNIX
-stream sockets and for
+stream and sequenced-packet sockets, and for
.B AF_UNIX
-stream and datagram socket pairs created using
+socket pairs created using
.BR socketpair (2).
.\"
.SS Autobind feature
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 20:21 [PATCH v2 0/6] {unix,socket,bind}.7: General Unix Domain Socket fixes Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] man/man7/unix.7: Explain Abstract UDS scoping to the network namespace Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Günther Noack
2026-11-06 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] {unix,socket,bind}.7: General Unix Domain Socket fixes Alejandro Colomar
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