netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2011 06:50:27 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	anton@...ba.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, eparis@...isplace.org, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	mjt@....msk.ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket_sendmsg() bypass problem.

Anton Blanchard wrote:
> [PATCH] net: Cap number of elements for recvmmsg and sendmmsg
> 
> To limit the amount of time we can spend in recvmmsg and sendmmsg,
> cap the number of elements to UIO_MAXIOV (currently 1024).

Looks reasonable value. But it will return less than requested without setting
error code. Programmers would needlessly call getsockopt(SO_ERROR) and get 0.
Maybe -EINVAL or something is better than returning less than requested?
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