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From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 16/24] man/man7/unix.7: Autobind: Fix when it happens, and mention SO_PASSPIDFD
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:31:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016173139.13076-17-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016173139.13076-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>

Autobind happens if either one of SO_PASSCRED/SO_PASSPIDFD is set and
either connect() or sendmsg() happens.  Mention SO_PASSPIDFD and
clarify that autobind does not happen immediately when setting these
socket options.

In linux.git net/unix/af_unix.c, the autobind is done by
unix_dgram_connect(), unix_stream_connect() and unix_dgram_sendmsg(),
if the socket has no address and unix_may_passcred() is true.

unix_may_passcred() is also true when SO_PASSPIDFD is set, which was
added in linux.git 5e2ff6704a27 ("scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD"),
Linux 6.5.

Also, the old text said "not yet connected", but the condition is
about the socket not being bound.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
    Rephrased the LLM-generated text so that the canonical description is
    in the "Autobind feature" section and the other place just refers to
    it.
    
    SO_PASSPIDFD is unfortunately not documented yet at this point in
    time, but it's still correct to mention it here.

 man/man7/unix.7 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man7/unix.7 b/man/man7/unix.7
index 480a565f7d04..e5cd2b888ca9 100644
--- a/man/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man/man7/unix.7
@@ -286,8 +286,14 @@ if the sender did not specify
 .B SCM_CREDENTIALS
 ancillary data.
 .IP
-When this option is set and the socket is not yet connected,
-a unique name in the abstract namespace will be generated automatically.
+When this option is set on a socket that is not bound to an address,
+the socket is autobound to a unique name in the abstract namespace
+when
+.BR connect (2)
+or
+.BR sendmsg (2)
+is called on it;
+see "Autobind feature", below.
 .IP
 The value given as an argument to
 .BR setsockopt (2)
@@ -355,10 +361,19 @@ call specifies
 as
 .IR sizeof(sa_family_t) ,
 .\" i.e., sizeof(short)
-or the
+or if
+.BR connect (2)
+or
+.BR sendmsg (2)
+is called on a socket that was
+not explicitly bound to an address
+and that has the
 .B SO_PASSCRED
-socket option was specified for a socket that was
-not explicitly bound to an address,
+or
+.\" commit 5e2ff6704a275be009be8979af17c52361b79b89
+.B SO_PASSPIDFD
+(since Linux 6.5)
+socket option enabled,
 then the socket is autobound to an abstract address.
 The address consists of a null byte
 followed by 5 bytes in the character set
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-16 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-16 17:31 [PATCH 00/24] Documentation fixes in unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 01/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EINVAL: The address field is sun_family, not sun_type Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 02/24] man/man7/unix.7: Socket options: SOL_SOCKET is a level, not a family Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 03/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PASSCRED: ffix Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 04/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: Fix member order of struct unix_diag_vfs Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 05/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: udiag_wqueue: This is memory in use, not memory available Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 06/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EPROTONOSUPPORT: Protocol 0 is also accepted Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 07/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: ETOOMANYREFS: Fix the conditions Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 08/24] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 09/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 10/24] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior " Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 11/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: udiag_states: Document TCP_CLOSE Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 12/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: UNIX_DIAG_NAME: The payload is not always a pathname Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 13/24] man/man7/sock_diag.7: Document UDIAG_SHOW_UID Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 14/24] man/man7/unix.7: Several items of the same type may be sent in one message Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 15/24] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 17/24] man/man7/unix.7: SOCK_RAW is accepted as an alias for SOCK_DGRAM Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 18/24] man/man7/unix.7: SCM_SECURITY: This is not specific to SELinux Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 19/24] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PASSSEC: wfix Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 20/24] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 21/24] man/man7/unix.7: Abstract sockets are scoped to a network namespace Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 22/24] man/man7/unix.7: Remove mentions of unsupported out-of-band messaging Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 23/24] man/man7/unix.7: Document SO_PASSPIDFD, SO_PEERPIDFD, and SCM_PIDFD Günther Noack
2026-10-16 17:31 ` [PATCH 24/24] man/man7/unix.7: Document SO_PASSRIGHTS Günther Noack

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