Re: bug in passing file descriptors

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Steve Rago <sar@nec-labs.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:29:15 -0400
>
>> On 10/07/2013 03:42 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>> There is no compatability issue.
>>>
>>> 32-bit tasks will always see the 4-byte align/length.
>>> 64-bit tasks will always see the 8-byte align/length.
>>>
>> 
>> Really?  So when I compile my application on a 32-bit Linux box and
>> then try to run it on a 64-bit Linux box, you're not going to overrun
>> my buffer when CMSG_SPACE led me to allocate an insufficient amount of
>> memory needed to account for padding on the 64-bit platform?
>
> We have a compatability layer that gives 32-bit applications the
> same behavior as if they had run on a 32-bit machine.
>
> Search around for the MSG_MSG_COMPAT flag and how that is used in
> net/socket.c

But it seems the compat layer doesn't handle this correctly,
otherwise Steve's original test case would work.

Must be a bug somewhere in the compat layer.

-Andi

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