Re: [PATCH - RFC] [1/2] 2.6 must-fix list - kernel error reporting

David S. Miller
2003-07-12T05:04:09Z

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:44 +1000 (EST)
James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jim Keniston wrote:
>
> > That begs the question: do we trust that nobody but the kernel will send
> > packets to a NETLINK_KERROR socket? Ordinary users can't, but any root
> > application can. Without kerror_netlink_rcv(), such packets don't get
> > dequeued.
>
> Indeed, the kernel socket buffer fills up.
>
> I think this needs to be addressed in the netlink code, per the patch
> below.

Looks good, I'll apply this.