netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Return EINVAL if the user provides a return data structure for getsockname that is too small to hold the PF_ address. This introduces a new error code but this should be OK as the error is real and would otherwise corrupt the user-application's stack, i.e., it results in trouble no matter what. I do not do a partial copy of the sockaddr structure because it does not make very much sense to retrieve only part of the socket address (e.g., ip + af

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:20:09 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	John Reumann <reumann.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Return EINVAL if the user provides a return data
	structure for getsockname that is too small to hold the PF_
	address.  This introduces a new error code but this should be OK as
	the error is real and would otherwise corrupt the
	user-application's stack, i.e., it results in trouble no matter
	what.  I do not do a partial copy of the sockaddr structure because
	it does not make very much sense to retrieve only part of the
	socket address (e.g., ip + af_family).

John Reumann <reumann.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> ---
> net/ipv4/af_inet.c  |    7 +++++--
> net/ipv6/af_inet6.c |    3 +++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Why are you resending this patch with no real changes? We had
already vetoed it in its current form.

Cheers,
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