From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>,
lamont@canonical.com, sconklin@canonical.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reported regression against commit a05d2ad
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:32:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E02273E.2080000@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1oc1qnc46.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On 06/21/2011 02:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
<snip>
> I respectfully suggest that the bug is elsewhere perhaps a broken user
> space application out there that needs to be fixed, or you have a kernel
> memory stomp that removing patch a05d2ad happens to shift the memory
> layout to be harmful in a different way.
>
OK, I'm remembering how PF_UNIX Unix domain sockets are used, so I think
your theory about a misbehaving user space application is more likely.
However, I am a bit confused about how an application can attempt to
receive before the socket is fully opened. Some kind of race condition
with socketpair() ?
rtg
--
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-22 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 20:15 Reported regression against commit a05d2ad Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2011-06-21 20:38 ` Tim Gardner
2011-06-21 20:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-21 20:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-22 17:32 ` Tim Gardner [this message]
2011-06-22 18:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
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