netdev - RE: bug in passing file descriptors

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Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:43:52 +0100
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Steve Rago" <sar@...-labs.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<luto@...capital.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<mtk.manpages@...il.com>, <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: RE: bug in passing file descriptors

> > There is no compatability issue.
> >
> > 32-bit tasks will always see the 4-byte align/length.
> > 64-bit tasks will always see the 8-byte align/length.
> >
> 
> Really?  So when I compile my application on a 32-bit Linux box and then try to run it on a 64-bit
> Linux box, you're not
> going to overrun my buffer when CMSG_SPACE led me to allocate an insufficient amount of memory needed
> to account for
> padding on the 64-bit platform?

Worth checking what happens if you try to send an fd between a 32 bit
application and a 64bit one.
Also is the fd actually closed if the receiving applications buffer
isn't big enough.

	David



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