netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: compat: Ignore MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in compat_sys

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:15:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	catalin.marinas@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Will.Deacon@....com, luto@...capital.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: compat: Ignore MSG_CMSG_COMPAT in
 compat_sys_{send,recv}msg

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:32:18 +0000

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 04:41:24PM +0000, David Miller wrote:
>> Setting MSG_* bits that aren't supported by the protocol in any way
>> gives undefined semantics.  You may get an error, it may be silently
>> ignored, etc.
> 
> From the sendmsg(2) man page, if some bit in the flags is inappropriate
> for the socket type, it should return -EOPNOTSUPP. But I can't tell
> whether it refers only to bits which are defined (for other socket
> types) or just any bit. The test itself checks for -EOPNOTSUPP but it
> gets -EINVAL instead, hence the failure being reported.

Thanks for thinking about this a bit more.  Yes, -EINVAL is probably
not the thing we should return in this situation.

>> I'm not applying this, sorry.
> 
> What I'm after is consistency between the native 32-bit kernel and the
> compat layer on 64-bit. On the former, bit 31 is silently ignored, on
> the latter it reports -EINVAL.
> 
> We could as well do something like below but we end up with unnecessary
> flags check on 32-bit. The question is whether such change would be
> considered a 32-bit user ABI breakage.

Ok, after some further consideration I like your original patch.

If 32-bit ignores the value, 64-bit should too.  So just mask it out.

Please resubmit your original patch, I'll apply it, thanks!
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