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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	John Ericson <mail@johnericson.me>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	David Rheinsberg <david@readahead.eu>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@multikernel.io>,
	Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 1/2] af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:12:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723091248.6acaa173@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260718182903.2295560-1-John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>

On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:29:01 -0400 John Ericson wrote:
> Commit fd0a109a0f6b ("net, pidfs: prepare for handing out pidfds for
> reaped sk->sk_peer_pid") inserted a prepare_peercred() call between err
> = -EINVAL and the socket-state check in unix_listen(). Since
> prepare_peercred() leaves err at 0 on success, listen() on an AF_UNIX
> socket that is not in TCP_CLOSE or TCP_LISTEN state (e.g. one that is
> already connected) now silently returns success without doing anything,
> instead of failing with EINVAL as it did before.

As the bug proves this

	err = x
	if (cond)
		goto bla;

is a fragile pattern. People do this to avoid the extra braces AFAIU
but it's not worth it. Can you move the error setting before the jumps
please?

	if (cond) {
		err = x;
		goto bla;
	}
-- 
pw-bot: cr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-23 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-18 18:29 [PATCH net v3 1/2] af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state John Ericson
2026-07-18 18:29 ` [PATCH net v3 2/2] selftests/net/af_unix: test listen() rejects wrong socket states John Ericson
2026-07-23 16:12 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-07-23 20:58   ` [PATCH net v3 1/2] af_unix: fix listen() succeeding on sockets in the wrong state John Ericson
2026-07-24 22:09     ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-07-24 22:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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