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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Consequences of commit 16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:59:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326401943.2617.0.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO+b5-pGcKbTYQWdWo=kbiQ2ORbgn8GAV_cfYjGzOARmgrsUxQ@mail.gmail.com>

Le jeudi 12 janvier 2012 à 19:14 +0000, Bart Van Assche a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> If my analysis is correct commit
> 16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb ("af_unix: dont send
> SCM_CREDENTIALS by default") changes the value of
> NETLINK_CREDS(skb)->pid from the sender pid into zero. Does that mean
> that the code using that construct did work in kernel 3.1 but that it
> is broken in kernel 3.2 ? Should that commit be reverted or will
> someone fix the code that uses NETLINK_CREDS() ? Would changing
> NETLINK_CREDS(skb)->pid into NETLINK_CB(skb).pid be sufficient ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.
> 
> $ git grep 'NETLINK_CREDS([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)->pid'
> drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c:	pid = NETLINK_CREDS(skb)->pid;
> kernel/audit.c:	pid  = NETLINK_CREDS(skb)->pid;


What is your problem exactly ?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 19:14 Consequences of commit 16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb Bart Van Assche
2012-01-12 20:59 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-01-13  5:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-13  7:20   ` Bart Van Assche

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