netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] af_unix: dont send SCM

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:30:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, zheng.z.yan@...el.com,
	yanzheng@...n.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	jirislaby@...il.com, sedat.dilek@...il.com, alex.shi@...el.com,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by
 default

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:52:27 +0200

> This patch includes SCM_CREDENTIALS information in a af_unix message/skb
> only if requested by the sender, [man 7 unix for details how to include
> ancillary data using sendmsg() system call]
> 
> Note: This might break buggy applications that expected SCM_CREDENTIAL
> from an unaware write() system call, and receiver not using SO_PASSCRED
> socket option.
> 
> If SOCK_PASSCRED is set on source or destination socket, we still
> include credentials for mere write() syscalls.

I thought a lot about this and I think we should be able to get away
with this trick, so I've added this patch to net-next, thanks!
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