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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zhengjunling@huawei.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, lizefan@huawei.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, xuhanbing@huawei.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601.222357.122000161676177828.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556D2B8C.9010108@huawei.com>

From: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:05:32 +0800

> So, the problem commit is 281c9c36 (net: compat: Update
> get_compat_msghdr() to match copy_msghdr_from_user() behaviour),
> which fixes db31c55a6fb2 and brings the get_compat_msghdr() in line
> with copy_msghdr_from_user().

Upstream this got fixed by:

08adb7dabd4874cc5666b4490653b26534702ce0

So the part that makes us not unconditionally return -EFAULT needs
to be backported, and that's probably equivalent to the patch
your proposed which therefore should be applied.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-01  9:28 [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg Junling Zheng
2015-06-01 23:54 ` David Miller
2015-06-02  1:21 ` Greg KH
2015-06-02  4:05   ` Junling Zheng
2015-06-02  4:44     ` Greg KH
2015-06-02  6:19       ` Junling Zheng
2015-06-02  5:23     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-06-02  6:27       ` Greg KH
2015-06-02  6:43         ` Junling Zheng
2015-06-02  6:52           ` Willy Tarreau
2015-06-02  7:05             ` Junling Zheng
2015-06-02 10:15               ` Luis Henriques
2015-06-02  6:33       ` Junling Zheng
2015-06-02  6:27 ` Patch "net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree gregkh
2015-06-02 13:00 ` Patch "net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree gregkh
2015-08-01 19:36 ` [RFC] [PATCH] net: socket: Fix the wrong returns for recvmsg and sendmsg Ben Hutchings

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