linux-kernel - Re: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is NULL

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Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:24:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	svenjoac@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, dingtianhong@...wei.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [ 105/124] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIAL when dest socket is
 NULL

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:47:15AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:41:32 +0200
> 
> > On 2013-04-03 00:11 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> >> 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > I'm seeing several complaints from udevd at boot in both 3.8.6-rc1 and
> > 3.9-rc5: "udevd[56]: sender uid=65534, message ignored".  Reverting the
> > patch below on top of 3.8.6-rc1 fixes that.  I'm using udev version 175
> > here, and 65534 is the uid of user "nobody".
> 
> Greg and Ben, please stop this patch from all of the -stable trees.

Now dropped from the 3.4.x and 3.8.x -stable trees (it wasn't part of
the 3.0.x network patches that I can tell).

> I'm going to revert it and use Eric Biederman's fix instead.

That seems better, breaking older versions of udev, while fun at times,
did seem to annoy a bunch of Ubuntu and Debian users :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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