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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Fix regression introduced by new sctp_connectx
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:57:17 -0800 (PST)
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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:19:24 -0500

> A new (unrealeased to the user) sctp_connectx api
> 
> c6ba68a26645dbc5029a9faa5687ebe6fcfc53e4
>     sctp: support non-blocking version of the new sctp_connectx() API
> 
> introduced a regression cought by the user regression test
> suite.  In particular, the API requires the user library to
> re-allocate the buffer and could potentially trigger a SIGFAULT.
> 
> This change corrects that regression by passing the original
> address buffer to the kernel unmodified, but still allows for
> a returned association id.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

Applied.