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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] net/unix: do not forget to autobind in standard case
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:58:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101228.135805.260098055.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293554655.20573.5.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:44:15 +0100

> Le samedi 25 décembre 2010 à 01:08 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
>> parent 67514fc40bbec857018cbc689d440282b75551db (v2.6.37-rc1-229-g67514fc)
>> commit 973bdc63c6aba703dd7b62a6ec7ae4bab7847731
>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
>> Date:   Sat Dec 25 00:50:59 2010 +0100
>> 
>> net/unix: do not forget to autobind in standard case
>> 
>> A program using recvmsg on an AF_LOCAL datagram socket does not
>> receive the peer's address when the remote has not issued a bind. This
>> makes it impossible to send messages back. (But the same _does_ work
>> in IP.) The cause for this is because autobinding was only done when
>> credential passing was requested.
>> 
> 
> It would be good you did some research and tell us why current code
> tests SOCK_PASSCRED
> 
> There must be a reason this restrictive code is here, dont you think ?

I definitely think that test is intentional.  I'm not applying this
without at least some basic research.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-25  0:08 [patch] net/unix: do not forget to autobind in standard case Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-28 16:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-28 21:58   ` David Miller [this message]

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