From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262006AbUFEVIM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:08:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262050AbUFEVIM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:08:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:16041 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262045AbUFEVII (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:08:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:05:44 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: "David S. Miller" Cc: olh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat bug in sys_recvmsg, MSG_CMSG_COMPAT check missing Message-Id: <20040605140544.0de4034d.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040605140153.6c5945a0.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040605204334.GA1134@suse.de> <20040605140153.6c5945a0.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Replying to myself :-) ] On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:01:53 -0700 "David S. Miller" wrote: > Let's ask a better question, why do we need to pass this thing down > into the implementations anyways? It's for net/core/scm.c handling, sigh. This means also that Olaf's patch is broken, when CONFIG_COMPAT is not set, MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is zero, thus ~MSG_CMSG_COMPAT is the unexpected value all 1's thus breaking the tests for unexpected flags completely. Any better ideas?